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Newspaper
Evening Mail
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jul 04, 1798
Page
4
The issue covers Buonaparte’s Malta victory and French triumphs, with reports from Brussels, Ostend, and Falmouth. It notes British naval activity, German and Italian political shifts, and Portuguese maritime actions, including privateer captures and trade disruptions. It also includes a Whitehall letter urging discipline among Irish migrants and clergy.
Yesterday at Wimbledon Common, before the King and Royal Family, the Light Horse Volunteers performed complex cavalry and infantry manoeuvres in bright discipline. The Duchess of York presented Colours to the St James's Volunteers, while political notices referenced candidates and aliens regulations.
Yesterday a Coutier named SI GTA TASTER passed through town bound for Paris with dispatches from the Swedish Government of great importance. Amsterdam letters report Dutch merchants seized by British warships in the North Seas. two squadrons are to sail soon from Texel and Helvoetsluys to avenge Dutch flag insults.
Falmouth ships bring Lord Patnes and several officers from Lisbon after an eight day passage. Cadiz blockade efforts by Earl St. Vincent and Admiral Neeson loom large as the Walsingham returns. A Spanish privateer captures a Welsh packet captain wounded and a passenger killed. News from Portsmouth, Dover, and Calais notes Malta’s fall to General Ruonararts and a Baltic-bound fleet’s voyage.
On Saturday the 6th ult in Knowsley the Right Honourable Edward Lord Stanly, son of the Earl of Derby, married Miss Charlotte Martater Hornby, second daughter of Rev George Hornby. Lately Rev Thomas Clare of Whitford officiated. Also, Mrs Bishop of Golders Hill, Middlesex, wed in Whitford. At St James's Church Dear Veriumey, the Physician General to Foreign Troops wed Miss Hagriet Pai Het of Sloanettréee. On Tuesday the 5th inst at Nantwich Cheshire Mr Thomas Atkinson of Manchester married Miss Garnett, daughter of George Garnett Esq. Wednesay morning at Tottenham Robert Pickett Esq of Mansion House Street married Miss Sake of Towrenham.
Mrs Susanina Sabatier aged 86 widow of John Sabatier formerly of Critt Churels Spitalfields London dies Sunday at Chichester Sussex. She and her husband were French refugees driven to England by persecution after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes.
Parnten J Walter appears in a local notice fragment with a painting house reference and a Beacwratakr marker. The readable terms suggest a small community notice or property related item, with names and dates only partly legible.
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