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Newspaper
Evening Mail
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jan 16, 1799
Page
4
A traveler arrived in the city yesterday and passed through around two this afternoon while en route to Borgo San Domenico. Our Duke paid the traveler the highest honours as he journeyed onward.
A fragment recounts a session of the Council of Five Hundred. Speakers rail against royalists and monarchies while praising the Republic and liberty. It notes the fall of Bourbon kings and urges a formal remembrance of the late French king and a reprimand by the President.
The Evening Mail reports on Paris papers from December 25 to January 13, noting tensions across Europe. Russian troop movements toward Moravia and Upper Swabia foretell potential war. French advances in Italy, Naples, and Rome face countermeasures by Austrian forces. Rebellions in Cairo and Belgium add domestic strain to France, with warns of conscription and political upheaval shaping a divided continental war effort.
Armouth reports the America man of war under Capt. Smith has arrived. A cutter and the Cruizer brig Capt. Wattaston, after failing to locate the mails and Meffis CoAmperiain Shaw Masoy, stayed briefly then departed. The Cruizer reports heavy ice damage to her sheathing and may have to dock. Passengers on arrival proceed to town as a fleet of coasters sails past. Wind from the west.
The French schooner packet arrived from Brest to St Domingo with a cargo of muffins and goods. It reports aid money on board and was taken by the Clyde, a 32 gun ship, after a six week cruise. The Clyde also arrived in Cowland Bay with the Hiram American ship captured earlier by the Clyde frigate, while ships Ramillies Bellona Revolutionnaire and Megera under Sir Alan Gardner's fleet sail nearby.
Lancaster January 14 reports the Harlequin under Captain Tomson of the Union, captured off Teneriffe by La Mouche, an 18 gun French corvette with 200 men. The Union suffered severe damage with masts and rigging wounded before surrender. The Countess of Mexicio, London to Berbice, was also taken. The Harlequin and 89 prisoners were sent toward England.
Captain Dickson of the Elizabeth recovers the Mariam Frost from Martinique for London on January 8 at latitude 44 26 long 26. The ship was nearly sinking when the captain and crew of 13 plus two ladies were taken aboard. After rescue they sailed away through storms and fowl winds, reaching Go long 17 and Go lat 0 before losing sight of the distressed vessel. The survivors faced bread and water shortages with many passengers aboard.
Teal and Thetis joined the River voyage with Crocker aboard from Charleston and Friendship from Boston. Winds shifted eastward as the vessels set course on January 17.
General Torrémain discovers his servant Hoflend has decamped with cash and Bank Bills worth six hundred percent. officers search Bows street for him. A separate note tells of a young man named Deni son who, for a wager, claims to run fifty miles in under ten hours, collapsing after a prior trial. Details note odds against him and a decline two months prior. A reform clause mentions redeeming land tax sale issuances with a 3 percent price and receivership details.
Major Hatten of the Royal Artillery wed Miss A Hodson of Sackville Street yesterday morning at St Jarace s Church Piccadilly in a small ceremony attended by local peers and family.
An archival death notice row records several obituaries. mentions infant daughter of Thomas Plumes, Mrs. J. B. Ryan of Grefvendze, John Maan Godichall, and Barwell, with death dates in November and at Weston Foute and Atingdon. Includes brief ages and locations, reflecting a local Victorian obituary fragment.
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