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Newspaper
Evening Mail
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jan 02, 1793
Page
2
The poem proclaims liberty against oppression and peace as the safer path for the coming year. It contrasts commerce and freedom with tyranny, praises the monarch and Barrangania’s sons, and calls for national zeal and protection of liberty. The text blends classical imagery with political aspiration for peaceful progress.
Reports from The Hague indicate the Dutch will defend exclusive navigation of the Scheldt by force if needed. Commodore Murray sails for the river to block French slips as 17 000 troops encamp near Antwerp, amid French and Spanish court maneuvering and rising Brabant unrest.
A Select Committee plots to thwart rising liberty by spreading fanaticism and seeding insurrection among neighboring peoples. It seeks emissaries abroad to inflame dissent while targeting Holland and England for plunder, with Citizens Paine cited as a paid agent. The text argues royalist aims persist and warns that republican tensions threaten civil war and a possible return to monarchy.
The text describes Paris facing escalating danger with renewed proscriptions and arbitrary imprisonments. Citizens grow weary of revolution while authorities in doubt grapple with Louis XVI. A looming Civil War risk is hinted, amid fears of disunion between Paris and the Departments and a possible remedy.
On January 2 Capt. Mawn seized the Majesty ship Bedford of four guns off Sotheaa. A.S. Hammonp was appointed to the D 7 A'falu ta Was Mens in confeequence. The Alcide of 74 guns, Capt. Zeb, was out of harbour to Spithead. The Jon o frigate, Capt. Hoop, arrived to refit at harbour.
This morning money arrived under a guarantee to pay artificers and workmen of the dock and Sheerness a quarter's wages for January 1792. Orders were received for Medusa of 44 guns to be fitted for receiving, while rope-makers are ordered to work double day.
A servant of Lord Viscount Cour FENAY suffered a fatal head injury in his Lordship's park when gunpowder forced the breech pin of a gun causing a violent fracture. He died after two days in a state of insensibility.
The report details coal imports and prices at the port of London including chaldron rates from 1792. It notes a high volume of coal despite many jailors in the river and mentions Gloucester's growing port status with brigs sailing to Oporto Genoa and Gallipoli. It also covers a Spanish vessel from Havannah to Cadiz near Halifax damaged and condemned, plus a wine merchant robbery in the Strand and new royal patent drops advertised by Francis Sprsury with bottle moulding and pricing.
Marriages recorded include Thomas Bye Esquire of the East India House with Miss Ann Bowman of Jewry Street Aldgate. Michiel Loten of CustosbMtbud with Miss Eleanor Bowman. Arthur Stone of Leeds in Kent with Miss Eliza Dixon. Thomas Hay to Mrs Bingham. Matthew Baillie of Gai borne to Mrs A R ay. Captain of sherath Light Dragoons to Mrs A R ay. William Hay to Miss Alice Forster. Hon Christopher Hely Hutchinson to Miss Bond. The notices reference various locales and dates around Edinburgh Colwich Merrian Square and other places.
A fragmented OCR record lists multiple obituaries and notices. Names include Mrs Nodin wife of Mr Saal Nairn of Bishopsgate Street, Jeremiah Barton MP for St Dorothy, Archi Thompson merchant and assistant judge in Kingston. Dates reference December 34th, November 3rd, November 11th in Jamaica with militia service.
Arrivals include the Greyhound from New York at Dover and the Leopard from Newfoundland at Waterford. Also noted are the Neptunes Miller from Seville and ships at the Downs with Niger and Nemesis frigates in port. In Dublin and Waterford mails are listed with stock prices and government securities trading with various quotations and bonds.
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