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Newspaper
Evening Mail
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jan 18, 1796
Page
4
Fragmented OCR text lists names and trades across English towns. Mentions attorneys brokers grocers merchants and manufacturers with scattered dates February and March and places such as Whitecross Street Guildhall Manchester Hertfordshire and Deptford. Details are incomplete and non-contiguous.
A late afternoon dispatch outlines Allied plans and a potential Congress as Ostend cites a May 1 truce and notes French revolutionary threats. It describes unrest in Paris, fear of a royalist purge, and the Executive Directory's struggle with democratic forces while reporting on Austrian and Sardinian setbacks and troop reorganizations.
Reports describe Republican armies, extended in Mayence to Granville and Avranches, facing organized enemy divisions. Spies prowl the countryside, forests and ravines aid ambushes, while local inhabitants fear disruption. Our troops need steadiness and courage against audacious foes.
In Calais a man named Smit Gerrian, former Courier to Calonne, is arrested as a suspected Allied spy. The interior minister orders strong guards at ports. reports say he was ready to depart with a passport for Hamburg. Meanwhile, Royal Navy ships are active, with several vessels arriving, refitting, or sailing, including the Arethusa, Topaze, Pegasis, and other frigates, as winds allow.
A fragmentary report notes a French frigate delivering word of a peace between Spain and France amid Haitian struggles. It cites Count Brugés, Montalembert’s legion, and a band of 6600 men led by Negroe General Féan, with clashes at Mirebalais and Rediffon near Capé and Artibonite. An expedition against the Cape is hinted, timed before British reinforcements arrive.
The privateer cutter sent in by Capt. Fairfax from the North Seas had all its powder seized and the officer faced a heavy penalty for violating river regulations beyond Blackwall. The issue suggests naval officers may not know river rules and Trinity House should educate commanders in North Sea postings. Major Rooxe bet £100 that he could drive whiskey and a pair from Temple Gate Bristol to Stall Street Bath in 47 minutes, a distance about 12 miles, with a 50 pound allowance to perform it. one trace broke near Keynsham slowing him briefly during the trip.
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