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Newspaper
Evening Mail
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jan 09, 1799
Page
3
A pawnshop case revealed the articles left by a child matched items reported stolen. The mother confessed possession of the goods before they were passed to the pawnbroker. The jury swiftly found the prisoner guilty based on the identified property of the prosecutrix.
From the Paris papers: Emigrants told to leave Rastadt as armaments grow in the Texel and Meuse. reports of French officers wounded at Aboukir, naval actions near Ragusa, and the Central Administration pressing communes in arrears to join the war effort. Rebels intensify, Turin forms municipalities, and Ehrenbreitstein siege continues with strategic mobilizations across Piedmont and Paris.
A long excerpted dispatch reveals a Turin to Berlin correspondence praising Nelson and urging Piedmont to join anti French coalitions. The letters discuss Repnin, the Triple Alliance, and potential revolts in Lombardy and Piedmont, asserting Italy’s doom for France and urging swift, decisive action to free Italy from revolutionary influence. The text includes commentary on Berlin, Vienna, and Berlin diplomacy, plus plans to leverage Neapolitan forces under General Mace.
Berard laments that victories fail to win peace, urging new revenue as the Direotory predicts post office income around ten million francs will not be met. Bailleul discusses cruiser policy, urging use of blockades and prizes to strengthen the Republic’s navy and deter British commerce.
Details unfolding from Orfowa fortress show SEMEIN inspired revolt, with Pafiuan Oglou directing terror and Ottoman forces under Captain Pacha advancing from Lonya toward Wallachia. The siege shifts as Pacha defeats Ale Pacha, who is then executed by pistol, signaling upheaval in the capital and mounting disfavor for the Porte.
Excerpt from Mercure Britannique by M Mallet Du Pan contrasts French revolutionary zeal with Britain's constitutional order. It denounces French leaders as ignorant and jealous, praises the British monarchy, Lords, and landed interests, and criticizes the Directory as a failed attempt at governance while highlighting Parliament's independence.
The Directory era councils push laws to restore natural liberty. Aimed at public instruction the measure requires young women receive basic education in essential knowledge. Delegated commissions plan gymnastic drills amid fears of moral decline and gender competition. A bill from Kent and Worcester MPs seeks to curb dangerous drugs in malt liquor brewing.
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