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Newspaper
Evening Mail
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jan 12, 1798
Page
4
Report from Capt Keats on the Roadicea traces Brest ships and a potential French move offshore. Rumors of fleets at sea fade with official silence, while port authorities gird for possible sailing orders. The piece covers wartime fund needs, political tempers, and a glance at social and criminal notes in London.
A letter from Citizen Taltey Ranp Pericorp to Berlin urges expelling 4600 proscribed French refugees, including the Archbishop of Reims and the Minister’s mother. The Duke of Brunswick orders all emigrants to quit within a month, while charities aid the destitute. Reports say similar measures spread through Germany and Switzerland as authorities target emigrants and British ships. The piece condemns tyrannical proscriptions and laments the erosion of hospitality and rights amid revolutionary zeal.
This morning the Majesties and the Princesses Augusta Elizabeth Magy Sophia Amextia will move from Windsor to Buckingham House for the winter. Yesterday morning they attended Divine Service at St George's Chapel where Rev Dr Watson preached on Luke xvi. A Cabinet Council met at Lord Grenville's Office on Paris advices and the result was sent off.
A Greenwich stage coach driver, Rawlinson, faced Michaelmas charges after violently driving his horse, throwing a servant of the Princess of Waves into a ditch. Ingram confessed later. Rawlinson offered apology but was convicted. The court fined 6s 8d and required two years of good behavior, with forgiveness noted from the Princess and Prince of Wales.
Reports describe urgent Admiralty orders for ships to sail instantly and the Boadicea bringing word of a French fleet near Brest. The Cerberus arrived at Cork with two prize privateers, while a fatal accident in Cowland Bay claimed Captain Drew and crew.
Last week a number of men from the Brunswick East Indiaman gathered at the Queen’s Head, Gravesend, intending to attack press gangs. After a scuffle ensued, the Indiaman crew yielded and ten ringleaders were taken to the Town Gaol for trial.
Two weddings reported. Thomas Seward Heachcroft, Esq. weds Miss Charlotte Lewis of Frederick Place by Rev Dr Hamilton. William Philips Inge, Esq. of Thorpe Constantine, marries the Right Hon Lady Elizabeth Euphemia Stewart, daughter of the Earl of Galloway, near Birmingham.
Died on Tuesday Mrs Hannah Lewis of Fenchurch-freet aged 4. On Ci aesday at the Hot Wells Bristol Lord Lisle of Treland also noted.
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