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Newspaper
Evening Mail
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jan 16, 1797
Page
4
Fragmentary report recounts military maneuvers and civilian friction during a northern campaign. Notes logistics gaps, peasant leaks, and road conditions hindering movement. Mentions Cork Limerick Galway garrison duties, merchant escorts, and Loyalist sentiment amid disrupted supply routes. Includes praise for some officers and concern at shortages and delays.
Prices of stocks for the day and one o clock noted. Dividends and lottery tickets advertised. Dispatches report Majesty's Packet Earl of Leicester arriving at Milford with news of a French 74 gun ship sunk by a British ship, and a transport with 400 dismounted cavalry onboard taken. Peggy schooner confirms 74 gun frigate carried into Kinsale. Brussels Papers up to the 43rd confirm 60,000 Russians joining the Rhine campaign and 50,000 others to Italy. Archduke Canty reportedly endangered at Offenbourg per Frankfort letters.
Contradictions arise after Captain AcRrey’s Calais departure and reports that orders to seize all American ships bound for British ports were issued. Dispatches note embargo threats, naval losses, and political intrigue between America and Britain, with court events at St James's and warnings about European alliances amid ongoing wheat prices.
The document transmits Capt Warren of the brig Mary Bristol's affidavit from Ireland detailing the Brest expedition. It describes 52 sail total with 17 line, 16 frigates, and various ships, troop counts of 26,000, 60,000 muskets, and 100 artillery pieces. Warren notes divisions, rescue losses, and Fleet plans, plus a British seizure in Scilly and comments on captains, officers, and the potential invasion of England. He swears to events as translated from French.
Navy report notes the Audacious and Valliant taken by the Lapwing on November 26 near St Martin's, with 200 Frenchmen killed or burned and several ships and cargoes seized. A privateer reportedly captures Brunswick Ulley and Susannah bounds for Antigua, while St John and Two Friends sail or run aground amid the wider Atlantic actions.
Yesterday morning died after a short illness the Dowager Countess of Gurtprorp, leaving the Rangership of Buthy Park vacant. Lord Cavan has been severely hurt by an over tirns in Ireland, where he is on duty, with no danger anticipated. The Duke of Northumbertonp presented a superb diamond star to General Fornes, commander in chief of the Portuguese Forces, valued at 3000 guineas. General Forbes, formerly a captain in the Scotch Brigade, fought Wilkes at Paris for his abuse of his country.
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