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Newspaper
Evening Mail
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jul 31, 1793
Page
3
Poetic meditation on a gifted youth stifled by poverty who, aided by a benevolent patron, might transform into a flourishing figure. The speaker appeals to the cultivator to nurture the flower of talent until it fully blooms, contrasting wasted sweetness with future worth and fortune.
News items report prisoners sent to Cologne from Corné and a regimental redeployment in Ireland for foreign service. Serjeant-Major Darey survives wounds near Paris, while Ambrose Ward and William Collins are executed at Forty-hill. A Paris bishop marriage dispute prompts a decree for discharging obstructive bishops and replacing them. A Paris deputation denies plague fears, praising hospital conditions at the Hotel-Dieu.
General Beauregard, commanding the Army of the Ardennes, is arrested at Mouzon for unclear reasons. Kellerman becomes Commander in Chief of the Armies in the North and Ardennes, replacing General Casrivs who is sent as a prisoner to the Abbaye.
A July 19 dispatch cites Thariot reading a Vernon letter claiming many rebels slain at Vernon and bodies bearing Vive Louis XVII. Le Combe St. Michel notes Corsican interior cut off, patriots disarmed and houses razed as English Spanish and Neapolitan fleets threaten. The writer alleges allied plotting with Danton and Lacroix and vows to expose culprits amid hopes of Paris return and liberty statue erection.
Barrere reported that Commons not yet approving the Constitution should assemble July 28. The committee disclosed letters suggesting a federation of republics with plans to split territories into Northern Southern and Central regions. Messages warned of a rebel army marching on Toulouse uniting with Marseille, Nimes, and Lyons.
Bazire reports Custine causes agitation in Paris after appearing at the Palais-Royal amid crowds shouting Vive Custine. He seeks arrest or watch by a gendarmerie, while Simon condemns leniency and calls for inquiry into Decrees. Assembly considers measures against emigration and counterrevolutionary actions in Toulon and Bordeaux.
Amid the Marseilles affair and Durance line in the ongoing war, Albite and Cambon clash over loyalty and casualties while debate rages on embargo effects. Proposals seek indemnities for ruined shipowners, asset seizures, and expulsion of non naturalized English, with ministers ordered to list luxury horses and officials urge stricter measures.
Fragmentary testimony shows the Convention debating Custine under suspicion of pressing prisoners and aiding conspirators. As calls arose to arrest him, a motion for arrest was adopted, and Custine was sent to Albany Prison amid political turmoil and fears of treachery within the Public Safety committee.
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