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Newspaper
Evening Mail
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Aug 29, 1800
Page
2
London dispatch summarizes cabinet discussions at Lord Grenville's office, with Paris reports on Bonaparte era intrigues, Austrian maneuvers, and a fragile European balance. It notes German specie inflows, Swedish court dismissals, and suspicions around Ménou and Kieper, while describing Naples with armed garrisons and rising unrest. A fire at Tilingham Marshes prompts local responses.
The Weymouth party attended The Apprentice at the Theatre last night with Mr BaraxisTER as Dick, followed by The Citizen and The Purse. This morning the Royal Family boarded the Cambrian frigate, with little wind, and did not sail far. The Duke of York reviewed the Light Brigades and the Shropshire Militia on the Look-out before many officials and spectators.
General Macpoyap is appointed Commander of the Army of Reserve in France. Gen Manov, now in Egypt, is linked to revolutionary aims and may establish independent sovereignty there. Lieutenant General Lake named provisional Counselor in Bengal after Sir Anunee Clarke’s resignation. Also reports on marriages, arrivals, a shipwreck of the Caledonian, a duel at Swinley, fashion notes from Paris, vaccine inoculation plans in Prussia, bread price enforcement, bread demand amid wet weather, disbanding Hampshire Fencible Cavalry officers’ gratuities, Speedwell Packet wreck near Montrose with two survivors, and fraud investigations into two clerks at Mr Menx’s brewery.
Private correspondence reports Captain Krabbe aboard Freya in the Downs on the 25th clashing with four English frigates a brig and a lugger. He refused a convoy search, engaged under fire for about an hour, ultimately striking colors after heavy damage and two Danish fatalities. The Freya lies with the English admiral in the Downs as two English officers and 13 men remain aboard. Megagew of the naval action and subsequent detentions are noted.
A dated shipping list details East India Company vessels sailing from Bombay, St Helena, Bengal, and China. It notes arrivals from Coastang Bay and ports, names captains and ships such as Royal Charlotte, Glatton, True Briton, Britannia, Duke of Buccleugh, and more. Mentions a first fleet arriving from Coastand Bay and a vessel refitted as fighting ship for Commodore Blackert’s squadron in Babel Mandel.
The report blends wartime contributions from Bengal with sea and land calamities. It notes heavy floods in Canton districts, relief measures, and debt figures for the U.S. government and foreign creditors. Riot trouble in Worcester follows bread shortages, while a vast Radnor Forest fire is finally checked by rain and community effort. A Richmond robbery closes the update.
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