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Newspaper
Evening Mail
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jan 16, 1793
Page
4
A garbled verse puzzle from the Evening Mail hints at forming a name from odd initials and phrases. It mentions ancient Greece and Rome themes, royal orders, philosophy and virtue, and a traitor’s fate, ending with a clue about a name that would wound the heart and cause tears. The note is signed N. BLP. Sc. Martia at Plath, Norwich.
A Dover report cites M de Chauvelin and secretary, amid fear of war as a Dutch messenger is examined in Dundas's office. Tales of Paris massacres fade. skirmishes near Mayence and Austrian recruits flood Cologne. French army strength and privateering armament grow. Ville de Londres construction noted. The Scheldt affair unsettled, Scheldt squadron blocks port, Count Struensee cited in Paris turbulent climate.
Fragmentary wartime chronicle notes a devastated town with 1600 French troops, hostages secured for 700000 florins, and a relief force of 24000 with Imperial Hussars on the Rhine border. Duchess and noble postings, militia movements, and court notices fill a wide, period-voice update.
On Monday December 19 a crowd in the market-place assembled and hanged an effigy of Tom Paine on a gibbet. Dressed with a Liberty cap and cockade, he held a rights of man book and an old stag. After four hours he was removed and paraded, then taken to the sea shore and burned amid cheers. The Royal Club at Duke of York’s Hotel toasted the King’s health and other loyal sentiments, with drinks funded by attendees.
A seaman convicted of desertion aboard the Charon is sentenced to 100 lashes. Reports detail ship movements off France from Andromeda to Ranger, Powerful, Lowestoffe, Nautillus, and Devonshire Militia deployments. A French smuggling interception in Catwater highlights Customs officer Thomas Collings’s lone capture of the loop Maria with contraband.
Portsmouth January 16 crowds gathered to watch Admiral Hoop and Capt Knight sail out of harbor toward Spithead aboard Victory as the Marine Band played God Save the King. Phaeton 36 guns also headed to Spithead while Vengeance 74 guns awaited at the Downs. Courageux hoisted Captain Waldegrave’s pendant aboard and Heroine 32 guns entered service under Captain Alan Hyde Gardner as ships in commission numbered 37 in harbor.
A Hamburg to Bilbao vessel named La Solidad with Manuel de Refesy aboard ran aground near Rye after a forceful sea. The crew were rescued, cargo valued at 30,000 pounds largely wiped out by storm and looting, and the hull sale proceeds benefited underwriters, fetching 135 guineas.
A notice reports the deaths of Sir Alexander Gilmour Bart formerly MP for Mid Loria Boulogne sur Mer. Mrs Bence of Henttead Suffolk aged 83. and Fransis Stuart Crawfurd Esq of Milfén Langsyde near Glasgow son of the late and brother of the present Sar John Stuart of Oftelmilk, with dates and places.
A Colonial era notice lists ships Thompson from Alicant Belomay Kelfic from London Arrivaes insca DraL January 16 with a north easterly wind. The Dupuch English remains in the Downs with Deat January 18 also a Warley East Indiaman and the Circe frigate in the Downs.
Fragmented listing of creditors and their addresses with dividend figures and bond rates. Names include Weight, Nath, Blachford, Harris, Burton, Kington, Oldroyd, Vaughan, Holbech, Watson, Wood, Green, Walkers, Aubert, Rigaud, and others. Mentions divers sums, consols, and securities with dated values and percentages.
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