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Newspaper
Evening Mail
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jul 12, 1793
Page
2
From Lisle to Valenciennes the Convention discusses suppressing hostile factions and arming volunteers. Custine reports bold defense against numerically superior forces, while the siege of Valenciennes continues with third parallel works, heavy fire, and desertions signaling weariness with Republican rule.
June 29 report details works between Weiffenau and la Chartreuse and night bombardments by Austrians. Fires rage around St. Quentin, Carmelites, and several districts as clashes continue. July 2 3 describe sorties, batteries, and ongoing bombardment with Mentz repeatedly in flames.
A caen dated missive from General Fenix Wimbren urges changing the theater of war to preserve peace. He requests the Committee of Public Safety reconsider decrees against administrators and notes Calvados and Brittany’s involvement. He insists on 60,000 troops to reach Paris for essential information.
London dispatches report Allied third parallel near Valenciennes with talks between attackers and defenders at 170 yards. Desertions, a magazine blast, and Austrian and French maneuvers marked the siege, with fears of heavy casualties. Lord Cavan recovered. Brussels letters note French and Austrian movements toward Mentz and related clashes around Landau, Oftenbach, and He rxbheim.
Continued report from a correspondent describes the third parallel nearing completion and underground work advancing. Mortars and cannon positions to be mounted, with showers of bombs on the covered ways as miners probe for mines and preparations to blow sections of the counter-scarp precede an assault.
A Fribourg dated letter says French losses at Mount Denis were heavy and news arrived. The Earl of Surren is dangerously ill in Berkeley Square. Brighton Pavilion repairs imply the royal family will stay there. Paris letters note Orelais heirs in Switzerland posing as Irish. Dublin arrests occur after an Exchequer Chamber Habeas Corpus dispute. Noble subscribers fund rewards for rioters in Queen's County.
From Brussels dated July 9 the reestablishment committee for religious houses dissolved by Joseph II is active but debates loom before a fixed plan emerges. An anonymous pamphlet attacks government ingratitude toward loyalists and accuses the administration of dispossessing citizens and labeling them evolutionists. Count Geyers, allied with anti-monarchical aims, is removed from the Council of Brabant amid ongoing Valenciennes siege actions. French sorties threaten, the third parallel nears completion, and casualties mount. Croatian and Bohemian workers toil on fortifications. Allied powers order property seizures of French clergy estates in occupied provinces to be redistributed equitably to fund the war effort.
A fragment from a wartime account notes that a main army around the city shows no major disturbance or alarm. It suggests negotiations may resolve the siege amicably and mentions a symbol change from tri-coloured to white cockade.
The French constitution has quickly become a rich source of witticisms among scholars. Some call it the Beptabol constitution after its chief framer, others the impromptu constitution for its hurried patchwork, and some label it tactical for its barren article string. Dantox likens it to a thunderbolt from a tempest, while Weates suspects the battery’s guns may soon be unfocused or blocked by circumstances.
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