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Newspaper
Evening Mail
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Feb 15, 1797
Page
4
A Thursday session in April adjourned after a brief discussion on ballot merits. The meeting ended with members noting the time and schedules for the next gathering, with no further actions recorded.
Fragmentary item notes committees of supply and governance debates. Mentions armistice, withdrawal of forces, and possible royal consideration of compensation. Names and clear events are not discernible in the readable text.
Yesterday at St James's Palace the royal drawing-room included the Queen and Princesses with the Prince and Princess of Wales, foreign ministers, nobility, and officers. Decks of presentations marked promotions and marriages, as the Royal Family prepared for Windsor and a Friday Levee.
The Orrestrian Papers argue against appointing the Prince of Waxgs as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. They cite lack of reforms, disputes over loyalty, and need for talent, discipline, and experience. They question Ministry control over policy and note added concerns around the Prince’s suitability amid crisis. The piece mocks expected proximity to London quarters and mentions the West India fleet being moved to Plymouth.
Privafe correspondence reports King of Prussia asserting Margrave of Anspach's claim to Ellingen within the Teutonic Order. Prussia demands conscription. Ellingen inhabitants resist until troops compel submission. An Elector letter condemns forced conscription and calls for restraint until Imperial law restored. Maximilian Fraxers, Elector, signs.
Letters from Florence state that the French Republic requires the Grand Duke of Tuscany to pay two million Livres Tournois without delay one million for indemnifying the cost to protect Leghorn port and the other as interest a crushing demand likely to compel payment. The Chancery of War has ordered General Dawvidowich to surrender command in Tyrol and may push further to an inquiry into his conduct citing his French mistress and her husband as unwise distractions.
Poifeant held by the Executive Directory reports from January 21 that Rame the current Finance Minister ordered to maintain old footing in the Prussian Provinces held by Republican troops. Clergy keep estates, wood sales stop, only usual taxes and arrears of loan. A new French stamp allegedly appears in the Prussian dominions. Baron Franck, Luxembourgeois by birth, is named as the true author of the Ghent insurrection. General Sale commands troops near Brufells.
A Vienna letter dated 26 ult reports 4600 Hessian troops in British pay redirected to join the Austrian army in Italy. A Stutgart letter of 1ath ult notes the Circle of Saints recalls its Paris minister and vows no further intercourse with the French government. Darmstadt hosts Colonel Craurarnis for treaty ratifications as Austrian auxiliaries prepare for Italy. Reports from Mantua say 300 men joined Provera near the gates. Vienna blames an Austrian officer for failed Rivoli plans and arrests two officers. The Vienna cabinet recalls General Vinzy and orders large reinforcements. Archduke Charles may assume command of Austrian forces in Italy.
Reports from Italy claim Buonaparte and the Marquis of Manfredini discussed an expedition against Castelnovo and Carfagnana. The plan calls for executions of rebel chiefs, burning monasteries, hostages to Milan, and coercive measures to force clergy loyalty, with movements toward Leghorn to guard against the English.
Report from Vienna notes General Davidovich has been dismissed by the ANCI and an enquiry into his conduct is planned. Count Rafumoufi, the Russian ambassador, has been recalled to St Petersburg and will not return to the court. Unclear who will be appointed his successor.
Dusseldorf reports artillery redeployment near Juliers with 45 large calibre pieces moved to Neuf and daily increases. General Matdoiald issues orders amid cattle mortality and a new requisition for 200 cows across the city and Bailliwick of Dusseldorf. A grain magazine of 76,000 masters gathers in churches. Andernach ferries say the French boat bridge restoration is near prior state, while works at the bridge head intensify and batteries threaten the left bank.
In Franckfort dated January twenty eight, a large artillery force is sent from Mentz to General Werneck’s corps. A twelve month supply for a garrison of twenty five thousand sixty is allocated and state provisions are delivered to Werneck’s corps. The French concentrate again near Mannheim with substantial forces.
A compilation of foreign-letter updates from Copenhagen, noting Haygem’s first audience with the Danish king, plus a Scottish clergy augmentation case ruling. Also covered are aristocratic title claims, estates, office resignations, Persian manuscripts at King's Cambridge, a possible fire rumor, and local coroner proceedings on a suicide noted at Warwick Lane.
Reports detail the Granville Bay from Liverpool to Martinique taken and retaken, Neptune captured by Camilla and retaken by Stag and Lni frigates, Mary retaken to Gibraltar, Swallow taken by Dolphin and recaptured by Stag and Luni frigates. Outbound West Indian fleet of about fifty sails arrives amid contrary winds. prizes from French and Spanish ships noted. Arrivals include Aftrea frigate and Cameleon brig. guard ships relieved by Ganges and Marlborough. Various ships sail to Nore, Plymouth, or Jamaica. Indiamen bound to river, and other vessels listed with destinations.
A house at Wooden Mills, about a mile from Kelso, burned rapidly. Firemen saved adjoining homes but the building was consumed. The Rutherford family, including a small child, faced tragedy as an eight year old boy died from the blaze and others were severely endangered.
A small boat with three men arrived at Ramsgate from Calais on Sunday. They escaped capture as one vessel of eight French luggers was seized by privateers. the trio endured calm seas, fog, and exhausting rowing aided only by a small compass.
The notice lists prize numbers for the ninth day and tenth day draws. It mentions prize amounts and ticket numbers such as 48,928 and 49,353 for the ninth day and 135,864 and 4,860 for the tenth day, indicating multiple prize entries and corresponding numbers.
On the 14th the Lady of Major Chiles Griffiths had a son. On Sunday the Right Hon Lady Rodrey safely delivered a son at her house in Bakerstree. On Thursday the Lady of Thomas Graan, EM was of a daughter on Gower Street.
Notices report multiple marriages including Edward Billingshy of Hockwold to Mrs Webster and Francis Daniels of Knole House to Joanna Wills. Also announced are special license nuptials and a Lady Carolina Beauclerc marrying Lord Dundas’s son, with deaths like Mrs Farquharson of Manor House. Financial and stock prices follow in a separate column.
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