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Newspaper
Evening Mail
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jul 12, 1797
Page
2
The House resumed and received the resolutions with amendments on forging Letters of Attorney to draw funds from sources like the South Sea Stock and East India House. Mr Roe moved to extend the bill to punish similar forgeries and forged witness names. The session adjourned after the Deeds Duty Bill passed and a second reading was set for deeds amendments.
London reports say Italy is in revolutionary flux with conspiracies in Turin Naples and Malta. Buonaparte reportedly plots to extend influence via a Cisalpine and Tearran Republic while Paris holds uncertain control. Military preparations and diplomatic maneuvers across Rome Florence Naples Malta and the Netherlands hint at a broader drive toward republicanizing Europe.
Cabinet Ministers dined with Mr. Parr at Downing Street where a council met in the evening. A mail from the Lee ward Islands brought news to Falmouth via the Prince Edward Packet stating the islands are unmolested, well garrisoned, soldiers healthy, and crops promising for next season. The Vienna Court Gazette of the 24th notes the Alpine and Gilpadan Republics aim to join Ancona, but says the arrangement is provisional pending a peace treaty.
Vienna notes ongoing talks at Montebello near Milan between French and Austrian plenipotentiaries. Six officers named as couriers to Marquis Di Gatto. Austrian deputies to the Congress named Counts Lenasaca Westernicn and COBENZEL and Baron Wistrsat. Troops ordered from Upper Austria to march to Inner Austria and Italy. Naples reports a conspiracy to attack the king but thwarted. Duke of Modena nearly arrested at Venice. payment of 180,000 ducats allows his departure. Udine, Pescara, and Zara freed to Austrian control.
Milan reports widespread efforts to unite democratized Italian states into a single Republic. Bologna seeks union with the Cisalpine. Genoa and Venice consider joining. Papal Ancona declares independence and seeks alignment with Buonaparte. Umbria Perugia Duchy Urbino also look to join. Papal troops desert to the Cisalpine. Buonaparte aims to restore tranquillity and enlarge Genoa. Tuscany border regions to be added to the Cispadane Republic. General Angereau forbids cavalry use of a term under penalty.
Frontiers of Italy notes a likely spread of revolutionary spirit across the country. Disturbances persist in Naples with many arrests filling prisons, leading to detainees being confined in churches and convents. French General Janciaux arrives in Naples demanding payments under secret peace treaty terms.
Turin sees doubled guards and patrols as canons guard gates and a council of six governs after arrests of suspected opponents. A broad mobilization follows, with provincial troops deployed and plans to move forces to the Bermuda valley as Piedmont debates annexation to the Cisalpine Republic.
Partial OCR fragment discusses Piedmontese defection and French army challenges with Buéxay, noting defection and reduced aid, and implying higher losses without a ban. The text is incomplete and lacks clear facts, names, dates, or events.
In Geneva and Turin presses report a conspiracy against the King, with over three hundred detentions in the city and provinces. Guards patrol all passes not held by the French, and troops and artillery protect key routes. The French minister is said to have departed Turin for Bugnagarte Milan.
From Altona on July 4 the directory endorses entering British dominions if Lisle talks fail. Reports say General Hoche will land near Dunkirk with the army, Lefebre moves from the North and Sambre and Meuse forces toward Hanover. Dispatches from Duke Brunsevic arrive in England, detailing French Dutch plans to attack Hanover as rivers and fronts shift.
George Baxter and Barrington Barrington faced Bow Street examinations on charges of possessing Guildford Bank Notes totaling 54801 and of receiving stolen notes. Witnesses tied the notes to a Wimbledon Common robbery, with claims of recovery and complicating pawnbroker records. Baxter alleged he received notes from a Mr Palmer to pass to Barrington. Barrington said he only introduced buyers to sellers.
Fragmented text mentions a Senate bill to penalize citizens aiding privateering against nations and a bill targeting arms and warlike stores. It references a Brighton Pavilion club plan with Lacy Lipe as president, odd misnamings, and historical notes about Sir Roper Drury and Elizabeth I era imagery.
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