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Newspaper
Evening Mail
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jul 27, 1796
Page
2
Telegraph confirms Portsmouth dispatch that homeward-bound ships from Martinico and Dominique, with their convoy, arrived yesterday without incident. The outward fleet Quarc is safely arrived, with confirmation of no accidents to any vessels.
Reports from Paris papers dated the 22nd and 23rd discuss a private letter from Larrach near the Southern Frontiers. It notes a Republican corps under General Lavorin crossing the Rhine near Huiningden and moving to the right bank to join French columns marching toward Contantes to strike from the rear. Mention of Mantua’s surrender and Conde’s corps reportedly surprised by Fertno are unconfirmed. Paris considers possible Austrian France negotiations without firm details. The Genoa minister orders expulsion of French emigrants and Mr Girola.
Morning at Windsor and Kew as Princes and envoys attend audiences at St James's Palace. Levee and presentations lot of officials, governors, and diplomats. Pinckney and new envoy Kin e receive audiences. Rumors Parliament to meet in September. posts at Carlton House, Brighton races, and Spain-France tensions noted. Corsica, Gibraltar costs, and lighter domestic notices accompany broad European war updates.
The review laments the play Doz Pedro as a farewell to the theatre, praising the author’s prior dramatic talent while criticizing the current attempt to embellish comic efforts with padding and quibbles. Performers’ exertions are noted as saving grace, with hopes the author will refine his craft and entertain the public again.
Vitlers proposes a resolution directing the directory to transmit an estimate of the number of troops needed for line of peace and the costs involved. The council agreed to send this message to the directory for action.
The Paris Gazettes report the steady advance of French armies and incoming diplomatic agents in Paris. They suggest negotiations may have begun with the possibility that Berlin offers mediation for some princes of the Empire as Counselor Gerwinus of the Prussian legation spends days in Paris.
Genoa reports say the Secretary of State sent a declaration to Emigrants Minister Girola citing urgent necessity for absence. The edict would be evaded by its execution, while remonstrances from the French Minister may curb Coalition gains. Faypourt presses removal of residents two years in Genoa, Spinola heads to Paris as Minister Plenipotentiary with unknown objectives.
Dispatch reports Austrian plans to concentrate between the Mein and Neckar to counter Republican Generals. Jourdan advances across the Mein as Moreau redirects toward the Neckar. Konigstein surrounded. Zretenbreitstein siege escalates with heavy artillery. Reinforcements move via bridges at Neuwied and Bonn.
A recent mail notes Conde's army nearing Ulm and Austrian magazines on the Danube. The march suggests a plan to join the opposite river banks, while questions arise whether the French will push so deep into Germany before subduing Mentz and Mannheim to secure retreat. Washington’s retirement may be soon, and a moral note honors his virtues as world opinion weighs the treaty with Great Britain and party divisions. The piece ends with a satirical aside on fashionable fans and Beau culture, noting women’s etiquette and Beau snuff-boxes in a shifting social frame.
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