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Newspaper
Evening Mail
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Aug 31, 1796
Page
2
The Paris Gazettes report no major events in Exats or the departments yet note violent disputes in the Legislative Body over the Emigrant Lists and priest oath. Moderation grows in assemblies while Jacobin bills face public opposition and a rumored plot seeks to murder the Directory and property owners.
Yesterday arrival at the Mall from Havage and Mr Hayno at Potsdam report. Proclamation urges enlistment for protection of property and families. No major army news. Leghorn merchants taxed by the French. Reward offered to fraud and perjury claimants with 12 percent to reveal English property. French soldiers alleged to have coerced shopkeepers in Nuremberg to accept mandates.
Readable scraps recounting gatherings at Dropmore, stock and Navy Bills moves, and travel of Lords. Reports note conferences between Pira Grenville and Carrington, a Weymouth council upcoming, deaths in India and the silk trade, plus French and Austrian military maneuvers and armistice talks. The Dowager and notable figures appear amid market shifts and ship movements in Downs and Beaconsfield.
Private correspondence reports Nuremberg taxed for three million livres with further requisitions. Ernouf voids armistice requests after seeing Nuremberg wealth. French advance from Bavaria toward Regensburg and Vienna while Archduke Charles withdraws with heavy losses endured by many corps. Vienna notes resistance, urging citizens to defend homeland against invaders.
Hague reports that the Texel squadron is blocked by the English fleet while other warships in the Meuse and the Vlie seek to join by favorable winds. Mars joins Texel. Helvoertuus squadron hopes to reach Texel. Germany’s military events interest the country as peace looms. Citizen Brauw, appointed minister in Italy, earns 12,000 guilders yearly plus a food gift.
The document declares resolve to defend the realm amid unforeseen enemy advances. It calls for extraordinary measures, enlisting volunteers from certain foreigners with ten years residency, offering integration, choice of regiment, and postwar support, while asserting divine providence and justice as guiding forces.
Field-Marshal Wurmser reports fresh advantages against the enemy with several officers and generals captured. Quosdanovich and his corps retreat to secure communications while Wurmser advances toward Rivalta Castiglione and Castel Guifre. Mantua remains secure as siege forces near Peschiera and pass defenses on the Adige hold. England may fund Russian troops to aid the Empire if peace delays.
Dispatches describe Deputies from the Diet claiming to seek neutrality with French generals. Archduke Charles expresses astonishment at such steps, noting 6000 troops march to protect the Diet in Etérzhausen. Frankfurt appeals for peace terms and remittance of French demands. August II reports camps dissolving near Eterzhausen and Linz relocations.
From rue Paris papers report General Jourdan has set up his headquarters at this place. The French are buried in a strong battery near Huntington in the territory of the Margrave. Three thousand workmen are employed night and day.
Intelligence reports reveal French control of Constance town and lake, Lindau and Regensburg towns also under their grip. Guards reach Meiningen while an Austro-Prussian column retreats from Ulm toward Munich. Rulers pledge neutrality. orders call for protection of the Duke and local inhabitants as frontier posts bear Pays Neutre signs.
Strassburg letters report many more troops expected, possibly 5000, marching from the interior of the Republic, largely from Brittany. The 11th action near Popingen yielded many French wounded. On the 12th, firing resumed as Austrians defend stubbornly along the Danube left bank near Hochstadt and Brenz Stoginzen Eglingen.
Avan Coblenzt with 27 troops arrives last night in Franckforts. They plan to stay a few days before marching toward the interior. Ehrenbreitstein remains obstinately defended as the siege continues with no notable events.
Reports from July 26 to August 1 describe disturbances in Milan upon news of Austrian advantage. Strife subsided after two reports of French victories on July 3 and 4 arrive. Arrests were made of those who tried to inflame the populace as Bravaparte plans Tyrol advance while Mantua’s garrison is kept in check. Naples seeks ministerial changes and King assembles barons to tackle the crisis.
The India House received notes on the East India Fleet ships headed to St Helena and England. Minerva left Bengal March 30 and reached St Helena June 29. Gabriel arrived at St Helena July 7. Prince Williams Henry Woodcot Hawke and a country ship sailed for England, Worcester for Ben Codlen. Minerva spoke with Prince William Henry and others April 26 and May 1. The Trelawney whaler and Canton were at St Helena when Minerva sailed.
A letter fragment describes a melancholy scene at sea with shipwrecks, cabin furniture and dead bodies drifting among abundant rum puncheons. Three marks ML AB and others appear on wreckage. names of the vessels are not identifiable. The writer notes inability to identify which ships are Toft or others.
The Chief Magistrate reports orders from the Secretary of State barring settlers from landing in the borough from the Continent and Channel Islands. Officials will examine landing sites to gauge enemy chances and necessary defense. Gunboats in the harbor are being equipped rapidly as fears of a French descent rise.
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