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Newspaper
Evening Mail
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jan 25, 1797
Page
4
Reports from Paris describe revelatory scenes as the Constitutional Guard swore fidelity to the Republic and its third year constitution. Amid alleged conspiracies and Jacobin unrest, police vigilance and troop parades marked the anniversary, with threats of further disturbances and Austrian movements looming in Verona and Milan.
The Brussels Journals note a Rhine armistice discussion as of the 23rd unit. A Vienna letter dated the 4th reports 20,000 reinforcements under General Alvinzi headed to Italy. Baron Moorfel, named Chief of the Belgic Counter Revolutionists, was tried and executed at Brussels on the 21st.
Letters received this morning report several ships captured near Whitby on the 24th inf by an 18 gun privateer. One vessel was set on fire off the coast, details remain scarce as observers await fuller dispatches.
Reports from Falmouth and Plymouth recount the Amazon 36 guns commanded by Reyno fiffe driven ashore near Brest after a fierce engagement with a French 74 gun ship in a strong gale. All officers and crew were saved and held prisoner near Brest. Curlew brig with 18 guns foundered in the North Seas with Lieut Freto and entire crew lost. Revolutionaire arrived with dispatches from Jervis and news of Blanche and another frigate capturing two Spanish ships. The Paris papers hint at turmoil in Italy and financial collapse in France, with debates on a proposed National Bank and shifting posts in British administration abroad. The sea events are set against generic political commentary and theatre news from Covent Garden.
Yesterday arrived Diana under Captain Farxnoa and Apollo under Captain Manrey from Cape Clear cruising. Doris with l Eclair a copper bottomed 18 gun corvette and 150 men, captured two prizes 60 leagues SW of Cape Clear, 16 degrees from Bordeaux. Unicorn and Doris chased two enemy ships, found one a 24 gun ship and the other a heavy frigate. They pressed the English fleet but did not meet it and withdrew. On Wednesday 11th they met Lord Barport's fleet and conveyed intelligence of the enemy. Doris parted the English fleet on Thursday the 12th.
This afternoon arrived the Boston, Captain Lefevre, an American from Brest. He was told that the fleet that sailed against Ireland mostly returned to port, except one leaving Brest and a 74 driven ashore by Sir Edward Pellew, with two frigates missing. The frigates with the generals were said to be returned. An English frigate on shore near the ship was believed driven ashore by her. The men of both vessels were saved, and French hoped both ships would be got off.
Sailed the Sprightly cutter of 14 guns under Lieut Jump with a fleet escort to the Downs. The Ranger revenue cutter arrived with a seizure of pilots.
The Jupiter of Lisbon rescued the crew and one Irish lad from the Hope of Dublin after the Sirene frigate captured the vessel near Brest. A violent gale damaged the Hope, risking sinking on February 3, but the Jupiter intervened, saving all lives aboard.
Dover reports three English-sailing invaders yearn for trade disruption. The Union of Boulogne, a 14 gun ship with only four crew, commanded by Capt Carry, infamous for prior killings, lies offshore with Verd de Gris, Capt Lorco, four guns and 35 men. A Calais lugger, about 70 tons, unnamed, completes the trio. They have captured four vessels, burned two, and sunk one near Boulogne.
The Friendship of Leith returned from Lisbon with the Lisbons retaken and brought in by the Earl of Chatham. The Ariadne frigate sailed with a convoy for the Downs, signaling ongoing naval activity near Portsmouth.
Deal January 25 reports Harpy sloop sailing on a cruise and remaining in the Downs with other ships as last noted. January 26 wind S. Arrived the Wind frigate from Portsmouth. Ships stay as last listed including Carolina for Charlestown Superb Romaine and Duckingfield Hall for India.
Two colliers were captured a few days ago off Lowestofe by a French privateer armed with four guns and thirty men. They were sent to Dunkirk.
On the 6th instant at Kendal, Thomas Hinde junior Esquire of Liverpool weds Mills Chambre, daughter of Walter Chambre of Whitehaven. The notice records a formal matrimonial union without further details.
A period obituary column records multiple deaths across London Holborn Leather Lane and surrounding towns. Notable names include Joseph Spackman Pewterer and Tin Foil Manufacturer and Stephen Martin Leake Deputy Register of the Court of Chancery at Thorpe Hall Essex. Additional entries reference Sir John Stuart Bart Castlemilk Lieutenant-Colonel James Wood and Sir Samuel Egerton Leigh Attorney General of South Carolina, with various aged mournings and place notes such as Workington Diffington Newcastle Edinburgh Guildford Cobham Kelso and Inveresk. The notices list dates counting back from mid month to last week and include military and civic titles, along with price and bond references at the end.
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