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Newspaper
Evening Mail
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jul 29, 1796
Page
4
A long dispatch recounts French mediation efforts and British naval alerts centered on Sambre and Meuse fronts, Wurtzbourg operations, and cautions about neutral ports. Reports note captive ships, French forces in the West Indies, potential bombardment of Italian ports, and Swiss cantonal stance with Genoa and Leghorn tensions.
The Prince and Princess of Wales arrived amid crowds as Lord Vickers and the Countess of Jersey were seen about town. A parade caused excitement with the effigy of Lady Jersey, and a riot erupted at the library on the Steyne over admission to a fashionable Cypria corps member. A celebratory coat and badge procession followed, as elections for George Wooprorp S Hennusson’s parliamentary seat drew 400 gentlemen in a scene of loyal ceremony.
Reports from Portsmouth and Cork detail naval movements including ships returned from voyage, new orders to join Sir Edward Hughes, and arrivals of transports with emigrants from Guernsey. Local incidents include a burglary at Captain T Pakennam’s house, and a powder mill explosion causing fatalities.
A fragmentary notice reports the marriage of Thomas Bainbridge to Mrs Roselendton at a Bloomsbury church near St George s, with scattered bits about other names and local trade prices including beef mutton pork and sausages, all in a dated late 18th or early 19th century style.
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