14 Aug 1797
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Newspaper
Evening Mail
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Aug 14, 1797
Page
1
A damaged OCR excerpt lists names such as Bena Deedes and James Street firms, with scattered phrases about a secretary’s address, hollow mentions of books, charity societies, and a meeting time on a forthcoming Wednesday. The readable fragment hints at society gathering logistics rather than a full event report.
From Lisbon and Cadiz letters dated July report the English fleet maintaining a line of battle off Cadiz Harbour. Crews are healthy and orderly, while rumors speak of a growing sea mutiny in the Spanish fleet and a broader revolutionary threat across Spain, with long‑standing seeds of discontent noted.
The town learns General Simcoe arrived from St Domingo around July with a packet from Jamaica, aboard the Swallow convoy, though reports vary on the fleet’s arrival and ships that reached the port. Private letters from Paris note unease at proceedings in Bonn and Paris, while counts and ministers move to secure European peace and German Empire integrity amid shifting alliances.
The Hawke Stanworth from St Abe s to Guebec captured by a privateer. Porre motth and the Niger and Tibune frigates sailed for Weymouth. A brig with coasters convoyed for the Downs. The San Josef prize captured by the Pallas frigate sails for the River. Mélpomene and Stag frigates arrived from a cruise.
A lengthy, partisan critique denounces the French Revolution and its leaders, tracing expansionist aims, disorganization, and religiously charged rhetoric. It argues allied powers failed to match vigor, cites England as an example, and notes reactions in Paris including a prize for an incendiary Jacobin address and a new command for Gem. Jagereair.
Three known swindlers nicknamed Bull-face Carpenter, Crawley Pavillion, and Brimer of Roxge 4d Keir plan to use marked cards learned in Cowes to fleece punters at York Doncaster and Scarborough race meetings. They target the Forte Bank fraud pattern with a left-hand marked card maneuver. Magistrates at York and Doncaster are warned to prevent further depredations.
Ailing aged resident William Hebe, from Shropshire, aged 104, rode to Mr Burwick's mansion and walked daily to the race ground. Harvest across the kingdom appears abundant though storms damaged some areas. Lord Kenyon and Baron Pearyn arrived for the Worcester Assizes with a harsh sentence for malt theft and a manslaughter case leading to a death sentence for two youths.
Four men were hanged at Winchester on Saturday Barnes Murphy Routh and Richard Charlton Kneavles for robberies. Charlton noted as a reputable life, but confessed to stealing silver dessert spoons forty two table spoons plate covers and other items along with a gold enamelled ring valued near tool from Thomas Coulthard Eroft Basing Park, a former master.
A richly detailed report covers Tuesday and Wednesday races including His Majesty's Plate for 4-year-olds and 2-mile heats. Moorcock and Cardinal win key events, with Patriot securing the Towns Plate for four-mile heats. Subscriptions and stakes are recorded, noting entries by Sitwell, Crominton, Orbitton, and others amid a busy, closely contested program.
Edinburgh, Audie Dundee, a respected industrious father of five, hanged himself after his wife left him briefly for church. A surgeon arrived but was unable to save him. his death leaves a widow and five infants unprovided for.
A fierce Sunday night hurricane at Lees Farm, near Stafford, followed a hail storm and thunder. It uprooted trees, wrecked barns, blew beans across fields, overturned a wagon filled with fitches, and moved livestock with little to no injuries to calves, though many poultry perished and a duck’s head was severed by the wind.
Old newspaper fragment reports scarce wheat and barley, variable prices, and buyers active. Fresh oats arrivals limited, hog pease scarce, malt and beans showing demand. Mentions new Bread Affize Act causing confusion for Market Weighers and averaging returns.
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