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Newspaper
Evening Mail
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jan 18, 1797
Page
4
The day’s London stock bulletin notes mixed gains and losses amid war news. Reports claim the La Ville de L’Ovienty was captured near Rivile with 40 Hussars aboard, while the Unicorn frigate pursued. Brevet details include French fleets, transports, and gold reserves with Royal Navy actions near Brest and Cork. Messages also discuss Mantua’s provisioning and political tensions over Vienna.
Their Majesties accompanied by the Prix Rora the Princesses Augusta Elizabeth and SorHta attended the Comic Opera Abroad and At Home last night. The audience showed loyal exultation, with the monarchs praised for the performance and for condemning fashionable vices. The House was full and the Boxes housed the fashionable, with the Prince of Waves in his private box.
Accounts from Dieppe recount the Brest Expedition failures and Fraternité’s fate with Admiral De Garets and General Hoche aboard, while Ireland’s Bantry Bay confusion unfolds. Berthier and Buonaparte missteps in Italy are noted, as US election parity and Adams’ probable victory are discussed alongside a Jamaica duel involving Major Suea.
A Druid frigate under Captain Caprinc Ton arrived at Kirfale with the Ville de V Orient, an armed French transport of 600 troops and ordnance stores. The transport was captured last Saturday by Admiral Kinesmit's squadron. Unicorn Doris and Druid shadowed the French fleet 45 leagues west of Cape Clear. Penguins, Diana, Apollo, Magnanime sightings and diversions near Mizen Head followed. hope for news from the western fleet persists.
The report details British naval vessels and recent captures at Bantry Bay and off Brest. The Hind under Captain Bazevey captures the French privateer Favourite with 8 guns and 66 men. Danish ships Walsterstoff Santa Cruz Packet and Three Sisters arrive, while Venus returns to Hamoaze with damaged masts. Spitfire brings in L Allègre, a French ordnance store-ship, captured near Brest, with a news of Brest fleet arrivals and other ships sailing on various cruises.
Portsmuth reports this day the Defence from the Mediterranean with invalids from Corsica and convoys for the West Indies. Leander and La Cofiérd arrive with ships from the Nore, Hornet sails for the Downs, and Susanna from Philadelphia reaches Falmouth after sighting the French Fleet.
An extract describes prisoners equipage and armaments aboard the Druid frigate and Orient transport, with 15 million livres in gold aboard the Fraternité. It lists troops, horses, mortars, rifles, ammunition, provisions, and ship stores, plus a report of captured ships and ongoing passenger arrivals with casualties and missing intelligence. A wardmote at St Mary Magdalen elected Mr Treacher as Castle-Baynard ward councilman.
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