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Newspaper
Evening Mail
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jul 17, 1799
Page
3
Fragmentary letters recount Buonaparte’s failed assaults on Acre on May 16 1799 and earlier attempts, with heavy French casualties and Turkish defense praised. Mentions Captains Davis and Miller and the shifting support of local rulers.
Intelligence from Lahore reports Zemani Shah consolidating revenue control as Seiks submit conditionally. Delhi-bound forces clash with Zemani Shah’s army, with defeats for his troops near Umrootfur and on the Beyah river. Delhi merchants seek safety as mutinies and reprisals unfold. Captains Bowman Bond Troy Shean slain or captured. British officers decapitated, Rajah’s brutal action blamed on Nairs.
MAIDSTONE July 16 His Majesty will inspect Kent Volunteer Corps at Mote Park Maidstone on August 1. Lord Lieutenant informs corps to attend and provides for at least 400 diners. Locals offer beds and tables for visiting defenders, with inns also aiding, as volunteers defend the realm against French faction.
The piece notes Sir Joan Scott choosing the title Lord Expow in Durham and a Serjeant of Law motto Rege incolumi, mens omurous una. It also records Gascorene’s symmetry priced at 500 guineas, plus a York Meeting prelude heat between Sir Harry and Mr. Cooxson.
Philip Keating and John Keggan faced trial over the June murder of Colonel Perse Shadwell near Wrotham. Witnesses testified that Keating fired a pistol, killing Shadwell as the party confronted approaching pursuers after a recruiting journey from Maidstone. Keating was found guilty and sentenced to immediate execution. Keggan was acquitted.
In Lewes on Monday night Revenue Officers seized casks of Geneva on the Beach near Ferring and the following day seized 30 casks of contraband spirits and one horse. A marle bed near Wychcross on Ashdown Forest shows promise of farming once barren land. A Brighton skate specimen attracted medical interest for its unique eye features. A Brighton thief sold a stolen whip saw for 17 cents, but it was quickly stolen back from the buyer.
A Gentleman in Grenada writes to a Friend in Edinburgh about a rapid voyage from London to Barbadoes in 22 days, the sugar harvest favoring production, a duel at St George's with Brander killed and Lavaie wounded, militia reductions announced by Prince William Frederick, and Elizabeth Woodcock who endured eight days buried alive at Impington before dying.
Details of horse plate races at Haverfordwest July 27 28 31 with classes for three to eight year olds mares and geldings entries from Lord Milford Edwardes Vaughan Heming and others. Subscriptions and prizes noted. Weights stakes and race days July 27 28 31 at Castle Inn Haverfordwest.
Tuesday fortnight the Court of Session held that a clause referring disputes to the Chamber of Commerce and Manufactures of Glasgow as arbitrators was not an actual submission. Lords ruled that a general submission is invalid and arbiters must be fixed and capable of adjudicating a concrete dispute before it binds the parties.
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