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Newspaper
Evening Mail
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Feb 24, 1796
Page
2
The Earl of Lauderdale announced his intention to defer his motion on a pension grant to a certain individual until a future day. He requested that papers on the late loan negotiations be laid on the table for production. Lords received a few private Bills from the Dominions and adjourned.
The Newfoundland Judicature Bill was read a third time and passed. In the 4 Committee the House resolved to report tomorrow on a measure to allow a bounty to captains of slave ships. Mr Burton introduced a bill to perpetuate the Westminster Police, read first and set for second reading Monday. Lord Shofield moved the Avon Canal Report be brought up, but the report was postponed three months by a division of 38 to 14. Adjourned.
London telegrams describe mail arrivals from Hamburg and beyond with sparse news. Reports indicate preparations for another campaign and a large Prussian force to invade Holland. French tolls on conquered Rhine territories rise, while disputes between St. Petersburg and Stockholm move toward adjustment. Denmark still withholds recognition of the French minister.
The Roya Family arrived at the Queen's House from Windsor while Princess of Wats traveled from Carlton House with Lady CuoLm Monastery to visit the Kine anc Queen. Reports detail a levee and a council, swift military movements, hostilities near Bréefuiré and Angers, naval actions off Toulon, and fortifications at Ehrenbreitstein and Coblentz with ongoing Franco Imperial tensions across Europe.
Vienna reports soldiers of Charles-Lorrain Carrassiers marching to the Rhine while Zayerer’s trial continues. Hostages are seized as France imposes new loans, with Deux-Ponts and other towns contributing. Cantons dispatch seal letters for a coordinated operation amid rising tensions between French and Imperial troops through February.
In a trial at Bow Street, the prisoner was found guilty of writing and sending letters to Mr. Oldham with threats of publishing a libel accusing Mr. Oldham of murder, demanding bank notes as payment to suppress the manuscript and avoid scandal. The case involved letters, a manuscript, and evidence from clerks and a waiter at Cambridge Coffee House.
Private correspondence from Wamburgh reports the Danish Court receiving an ultimatum from Imperial Mages TY regarding peace with France. The Emperor insists on Belgium’s restoration, signaling an ongoing war with heavy troop reinforcements planned on the Rhine and in Italy. Fleet plans and ministerial acknowledgments in Stockholm and Copenhagen are noted, with hopes for restored accord between Denmark and Russia.
A garbled account describes a man struck by an instrument that pierced no heart due to a rib. He was taken to a public house where he remained for about an hour and a half before regaining his speech and awareness.
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