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Newspaper
Evening Mail
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jan 01, 1796
Page
2
The speaker argues that current tolls are oppressive and that a new plan limiting tolls and expediting disputes would reduce costs and delays. Indictments are costly and slow, while a simple magistrate decision could settle disputes quickly.
Reports describe transports arriving from Quiberon Bay to Portsmouth and Plymouth aboard British fleet vessels. The Duke of Gamberland’s packet reaches Falmouth with town news. A British regiment is listed with Crosay as colonel, while Berlin court contacts hint at Republican sentiment. Dreadful gales have forced the Amphi frigate to seek Orkney harbors, delaying since late last month.
Reports detail Majestys schooners Cormorant and Marie Antoinette operations from Port Royal to Jamaica with detachments from the 13th 76th and 16th Regiments. Privateers harass commerce near Buckner Bay and St Domingo coast while British crews suffer fever aboard prize ships. News recounts fortifications near Mount William, farmed provisions, and army delays in Windward operations.
In an ambush between Spring Vale and Shaw Castle Meff. Bell and Webb of Falmouth were attacked. Bell was lightly wounded in the knee while Webb was not hit. A patriot from Spring Vale brought a report to Major General Walpole, and Jamies Sidlow was sent from Trelawny Windward troop. Sidlow was killed at the same location, a ball through the heart, with injuries described and fragments of a packet recovered for Walpole.
A ragged list reports multiple vessels harmed at sea around the Irish Sea and Atlantic approaches. The Bon Visage Gomez from St Uses to Limerick, the Perseverance Delano from Liverpool to Boston, and several others are noted with drownings, wrecks, or salvage. Captains report gales and dismastings, with some crews saved or taken aboard.
A friend's account describes the 3 2/3 ton Jersey bound vessel John and Elizabeth from Cowes with 86 of Somersetshire and 29 of Suffolk reduced Fencibles and five women. A violent hurricane forced the master Liam Mrtcuenr to steer for shore and batten down hatches. Many scarce survivors were found delirious and murderous before subsiding after the gale, with the vessel’s master giving an affidavit to Cowes authorities about the disaster.
Report from the Isle de Dieu states that His Majesty's ship Orton, a 74 gun vessel commanded by Sir James Saumaker, departed for Portsmouth with a convoy of ships. Many men and transports long at Quiberon Bay and the French coast are said to have left for Portsmouth on this route. The convoy is reported to be under weigh southward, with one gun reel noted and a Lee from the Isle de Dieu making late mention.
The Artois figare ship and Orioh of 74 Bulls arrive fromquiber with many transports under Rear Ad fleet. A gale drives topmasts aloft while ships seek harbor to refit near Plymouth or Falmouth. Amethyst frigate Captain Arruecs reportedly wrecked near the Start with unclear details.
A Paris opera house praised for superior lighting and backstage illumination, with a new method that hides lamps from the audience and floods the house from behind the scenes. Earlier, a fire near Bow Street destroyed Treland’s cabinet shop and damaged surrounding properties, resulting in one man and a boy killed. Nearby Cork exported 11,000 bullocks since September, slightly down from last winter, and a Ludgate Hill resident was assaulted on Holborn, with two passersby scattering the assailants.
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