French atrocities and reprisals feared in Parma region
The Hamburgh Mail reports at Colorne in Parma the French committed terrible excesses. Marshal Suwar to retaliate. Morgan says French soldiers were denied quarter. A hope arises for measures to curb war’s horror on both sides. An Hague article notes state fluctuation and risks as Batavian leadership weakens, vessels adrift, seeking safe harbor after pirate violence.
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Colorne
Parma
Marshal Suwar
Morgan
Hague
Lecate
Talleyrand
Royal Levee and political shifts at St James Palace
Yesterday morning the King Queen and Princesses Augusta and Eviza EpeTu arrived at Kew from Windsor. A Levee at St James's palace featured foreign ambassadors cabinet ministers and nobility with notable introductions. A Privy Council followed with executions ordered for four at Newgate. Court actions included new appointments and transfers across the legal and administrative offices. Concurrently reports from Europe describe battles in France and troop movements toward Mentz and Ehrenbreitstein with broader Franco-Austrian shifts and resignations in the French government.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Augusta
Eviza EpeTu
Kew
Windsor
St. James’s Palace
Newgate
East India House
Constantinople
Buonapantre
Acre
Tetexmouru
London Tavern
Princes Mary
St. Helena
Bengal
Lord Chancelllor
Earl Spencer
Pitt
WinponHam
St. James’s
India
Prince Wm. Henry
Queen
J Busbridge
Lord Walsingham
Phoenix
Rockingham
Melville Castle
Nawke
Good Hope
Nottingham
Enta
Moreau
Suwarrow
Heche
Scherer
Directory
Laurent
France
Staarrow
English Fleet Apparent Movements Reported Along Coast
Correspondence from The Hague notes fears of a landing by an English fleet with land troops. Friesland sightings described ten Batavian armed vessels and rumors of two ships of the line and four frigates at Schevening. Reports also mention cannon in Lyons amid Royalist plots and powder theft from a local arsenal.
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Hague
Friesland
Wadden
Schevening
Troop Movements from Southampton to Winchester and Portsmouth
July 16 report from Southampton describes two brigades of Guards and line forming tent departures at four in the morning with a main force marching to Winchester. Other brigades follow on Thursday as stores are loaded onto six revenue cutters for transport to army rendezvous. The Guards and Queen's Regiment arrive at Portsmouth from Ireland and are to proceed to the Downs. Duke of Kent’s horses arrive to be embarked. Heavy baggage is loading onto river transports.
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Guards
Winchester
Queen’s Regiment
Portsmouth
Ireland
Downs
the Duke of Kent
Parkhurst Sold Near Dorking for Thirty Thousand Pounds
Parkhurst, near Dorking, the seat of Lord Macartney, has been sold for 30,000l. Paris watchers focus on Garnerin and balloons rather than the Directory changes. The Journal des Hommes Libres reports Renacu’s seizure of arms from Versailles factory worth 100,000 franks. St Fea n’s orle on Syria’s coast is fortified only modestly with one gate and a town of 15,000 to 20,000 inhabitants. Acre sits on a promontory, with no harbour, while Haifa hosts European ships as trade continues with bread cloth, lead, tin, and cotton exchanged.
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Parkhurst
Dorking
Lord Macartney
Paris
Garnerin
China
Renacu
Journal Des Hommes Libres
Brown
Acre
Wessels
Haifa
Mount Carmel
Augmentation of the Regular Forces in Ireland and Europe
The Royal Bucaincuamsatre Materia leads a militia surge inviting volunteers to join the gth through 82d regiments for five-year terms. About 320 men, a quarter of the regiment, enlisted for the 4th Regiment, with a promised bounty of ten guineas and immediate supports. The act under Parliament allows militia volunteers to enter regular regiments with pay, clothing, and protections, aiming to speed Europe’s liberty alongside Allied victories.
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Royal
Bucaincuamsatre Materia
Ireland
Europe
Marquis of Bucéixcuam
Gth
King’s Own
Regiment of Foot
Salisbury
Morrison
Sth
Northumberland
Bolton
Lincolnshire
A. Clarke
K.B
Theoth
East Suffolk
Tower of London
Faversham
Kent
Berrie
1Sth
East York
Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Powera
16Th
Buckinghamshire
Margate
Bowyer
Leicestershire
Norwich
Garta
Devonshire
Preston
Lancsshire
Leiis
Gift
Huntingdonshire
York
Oxfordhire
Canterbury
TraPain
West Essex
Gloucester
O’ Nor Ton
Wiltshire
Helstone
Marthews
West Suffolk
Landguard Fort
Esex
Earl of Balcarras
Prince of Wales’s
Blandford
Dorsetshire
Picar
A& of
Parliament
Fortes
King Georcs
Militia Volunteers Locations and Royal Approval 1799
A royal notice outlines volunteer criteria and lists militia districts and stations across regions including Sunderland York Norwich Horsham Ashford Winchester Plymouth Bristol Chefer. It urges commanding officers to explain Parliament’s act and encourage support for welfare and security of the British Empire. Dated July 13 1799 and signed by Harry Calvert Adjutant General.
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Sunderland
Yorkshirg
York
Norwich
Pre
Horsham
Ashford
Peole
South
Winchester
Wester
Plymouth
Severn
Bristol
North West
Chefer
Royal Highness
Horse-Guards
Harry Calvert
Ship News Plymouth July 15 American brig Phlanthropist
This morning arrived the American brig Phlanthropist from Alexandria laden with linen glass hardware and wax candies bound to Liguria. Captured on the 9th by a French privateer and recaptured on the 4th by His Majestys ship Cerberus. The Cerberus and the General Prescott were left off Cape Finisterre and are supposed to be bound for Ireland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Plymouth
Phlanthropist
Alexandria
Virginia
Wa. Symonos
Liguera
Malait
Macna- Mara
France
Cerbera
General Prescot
London
Smyrna
Cerberus
Cape Finiiterre
Ireland
Capture of a Privateer Attack on the Planter Letter
Captain John Watts details a naval engagement near the 49 7 latitude and 47 30 longitude on July 16. The American ship Planter, with 12 nine pounders and 6 six pounders and 43 men, fought a 22 gun privateer. Passengers Mrs M Dowell and Miss Mary Harley aided wounded and carried ammunition. M Kennon and Hodgson aided with small arms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Watts
Planter
BOVER
Hampton Roads
Jz Brown
Richmond
Lamb
Haf Pak
M‘kennon
French privateer captures Rye fishing boat off coast
On Tuesday night a French lugger privateer seized a large fishing vessel from Rye with trawl nets and fish on board, steering toward the opposite shore. A boy asleep in the cabin was taken. fishermen escaped in a small boat. Government inaction blamed for ongoing distress to sailors.
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Rye
Castleknock
Dublin
Farming Society
Bryan Floody
Blackwood
Hansfield
Christopher Kelly
Troy
Porterstown
Mr. Lesgrave
Newbarn
J. Brazinton
Balelymacarhy
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Pisazo
Bentinck
St. Vincent's
Ben ™Evincy
Demarary
Duke of Portland
Kine
Cape of Good Hope
Lord Somerville
Parea
Shannon
West
Navy
Ranpotra
Oxford
Smallwell
Jackson
Lettor
Caron
Canstchurch
Jounx Scott
the Common Pleas
James Eyre
John Mitrorn
John Scott
William Grant
John Mitford
Mansfield
Chester
Aggut Turnor
Lisbon
Portugal
Board
Pavia
Jane
Geo
Poth Legion
Alessandria
Milan
Fiorenzola
Piacenza
Grenier
Novi
Tortona
Bellegarde
Turin
Brianchon
Grenoble
Banks
THE
Maine
Count Straray
Switzerland
Franckfort
Mentz
Hussars
Hanau
Offenburgh
Wetteravia
Ehrenbreitstein
Hacue
Lombard
Citizen Chaxieu
Citizen van der Goes
Hamburgh “Mail
Lyons
Marseilles
Barcelona
Southampton
Ship News
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