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Newspaper
Evening Mail
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Aug 20, 1798
Page
2
Reports from Basel and Milan describe French requisitions for Mentz and army provisioning, with potential Swiss Confederation shifts. Guizot pledges to protect voters for liberty, while Caenthal warns Austrian restraint. Grisons fear upheaval over Helvetic Constitution and possible Austrian counteraction.
Depredations by French and Dutch privateers threaten trade. memorial urges that neutral vessels not be seized within the Republic. Dutch Directory seeks to exonerate France amid disputes over captures while deputies petition for release. other reports note Austrian and British movements, with Italy and Tyrol troop shifts and battles near Cape Pynfara and Candie.
A long dispatch summary reports Austrian deputy votes on Paris notes, imperial courier to Count Lemnacs, and Count Conenze's Berlin departure. It notes British naval movements near Cadiz and Alexandria, Greek and Turkish theater of operations, and a new feudal abolition decree. Brussels reports troop marches toward Cologne, Vienna, and a party of British royal escorts. Reports from Leghorn describe English fleets pursuing French forces, with a rash of crimes and political shifts in France, and Jamaica forming woodmen companies to police enslaved people. Also included are court martial outcomes for Desertion, and violent incidents in London streets.
Aug 1 report notes magazines of provisions and forage forming as General Joubert orders readiness for a new campaign. Many troops and artillery are advancing over the Rhine toward Weeppe EtreeM ny Lindau. Austrian forces have grown, with 30,000 men deployed between Lake Constance, the Rhine, and the Tyrol. a camp at Puidehz is planned.
A letter from Sir Edward Pellew aboard Indefatigable reports the capture of the French corvette La Vaillante, commanded by Lieutenant Vaineau La Forte. The ship, perfumed for 22 guns and 138 cm crew, sailed from Rochefort and Île de Ré, resisted briefly, then surrendered after a 24 hour chase. Also listed are bankrupts and dividends in the London Gazette notice.
Copy of a letter dated July 6 1798 from Captain John Colonna of L Aigle to agents Littledale Broke Rick and Co Leghorn describes a night engagement with a French brig in the Pioci bina Passage. After two hours and a half of close fighting the L Aigle became bogged in the enemy rigging and suffered heavy casualties. The French brig Zodj reportedly carried 18 guns and 125 men, with 45 killed or wounded. The L Aigle limped into port with eight dead and several wounded. Colonna notes his damaged rigging and the loss of men while the French vessel reportedly lost its mainmast.
Aug 2 report from Lerwick details capture of Dutch Greenland blubber ships and a Dutch dagger from Iceland by Circe frigate and others, with further word Circe and Afrea have taken more ships. Aug 18 Yarmouth notes from the Fast Country fleet bringing prizes and prisoners, plus movements of other ships and captains.
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