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Newspaper
Evening Mail
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Dec 06, 1793
Page
2
Poetic fragment laments wartime dread and social turmoil. It envisions Liberty and Monarchy protected by three venerable columns Justice Mercy and Law, urging Crowned Peoples Right amid upheaval. The piece cites imperial imagery and calls for order overarchy.
The Naval List presented by the Earl of Cratham shows the active British Navy in commission totals 289 ships. It breaks down line ships from 110 to 64 gun ships with fifty gun ships numbered, plus frigates and smaller craft, and lists the navy’s ordinary force including ships of the line and various frigates and sloops.
The Sheriff serves warrants to apprehend delegates from the Corresponding and Constitutional Societies in London and Edinburgh Gazetteer publishers. They were seized in their beds and their papers secured this morning as authorities move to bring them before the Sheriff Clerk.
Letters from Oporto report a Cork bound sloop laden with butter foundering near the harbour with crew saved. Six frigates arrived at Liibog to convoy British trade from that port to Great Britain and Ireland. The 35th regiment receives a summons to Cork for immediate foreign service with Major Campbell leading the first division Monday and Major M Allister leading the second division Tuesday.
A described wart cure uses arsenic and melted preparation to make a powder applied to the blemish until it bleeds, then a small dose to remove the wart. The Sussex Willingdon garden notes an apple tree bearing fruit as large as nuts, producing a great yield early autumn.
The piece analyzes public mood amid British military moves against France. It critiques factional plotting at home, warns of liberty and equality excesses, and notes scarce troop activity from November 11 to 13. Captain Hors returned home to serve elsewhere.
Postscript notes stocks at one o'clock with 3 per cent Consols at 74 and 3 per cent reduced at 74. No price for other funds. As the paper goes to press, word arrives that the French portion of the Land of Santo Domingo has been ceded to England, with no further details available.
The Oreffes sloop of war arrives at Plymouth with no news of enemy captures. It left the Grand Fleet off Scilly on the 6th instant and suggests all enemy ships escaped. The pursuit stretched Lord Howes fleet to the Bay of Biscay before returning.
Yesterday morning Captain Howe arrived in town, having departed JZéadax on the 13th. He was received with official ceremony and is expected to address local officials today.
The Fort of Moiratill remains at Guernsey awaiting France advice. Flora frigate under Admiral Macenivp sails Cherbourg to Normandy and Brittany coasts toward Cancae. Count p Heravitcy joins Earl Moira in Guernsey. Dol and Pont Orjon clash on Nov 22 23 with Royalists routing the Republicans. two Republican regiments fatally misfired overnight.
Lord Hosars will travel to India with Marcus Burgstorp Apverty and four others. The Duchess of Ruttann with Col Morrison visits Lord and Lady Mersovurwne at Brockett Hall. Rear Admiral Kincsminz departs for Portsmouth to assume command in Newfoundland waters.
A Plymouth message describes a small cutter from Portland chased by a French privateer off Scilly. The English vessel, using superior speed, escaped and headed southward. The Orestes, a sloop of iron fleet, was seen off Scilly after departing Newfoundland, Christiana, Longfound, and Bilbao bound ships, with wind from the southwest.
Navy report lists the Ceres armed ship and Girce frigate with a convoy to Jamaica, the Heroine from Plymouth, the Resource frigate with 28 gangs, and several vessels sailing from Plymouth and Newcastle to St Vincent and Antigua. Drake sloop of war with transports sails for Offend.
In North Shields on November 30, a change in weather freed 2 to 3 hundred men from confinement after three weeks of overcrowding. The prefects endured heat and gusts while sailors attempted to shelter. A recent incident saw about 40 prisoners in the tender overpower guards and escape.
The Culloden Sir Thomas Rien and the Monarch of 74 guns have sailed from Portsmouth to Guernsey to join Adm MacNair commanding the force under the Earl of Moira. Several frigates and cruisers off the French coast seek first intelligence for the Earl of Moira as peaceful times await a favourable moment to land troops in Brittany.
Saturday evening performances featured The Recruiting Officers with The Mic riners and Inkle and Yarico with No Song No Supper at Covent Garden. Also listed are marriages and deaths with local notices across London and Dublin from the week, naming several families and venues.
Shipping news lists arrivals and departures on December 7 and 8. Vessels include San Antonio D Padua Bilboa bound, Zandaun Baptista from Bibou, Sally Bowsskell from Chepstow, and HMS resolutions in the Downs. Transports like Elizabeth and Duchiess of Bucclashs Fame head to Grenada and Jamaica, with other ships destined for Antigua and Lisbon.
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