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Newspaper
Evening Mail
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jun 07, 1797
Page
4
The House in a Committee of Privileges continued the hearing of Sir Adam Ferguson's claim to the Scotch peerage at Glencairne. The Sir Godfrey Wassall divorce bill report was received and ordered engrossed with amendments. Adjourned.
The House lacked a sufficient number of Members at four o'clock to proceed with the ballot for a committee to try the merits of the Waintshire Election Petition. The Speaker adjourned the House until tomorrow.
1797 dispatches report ongoing mutiny at the Nore with naval action, detachments, and proclamations. Royal authorities seize suspected leaders near Dartford and Cadiz letters reveal European theater moves including Danube and Rhine forces, Corsica, and Venice upheaval.
Morning arrivals bring news of territorial allocations for the new Republic of Lownarpy and French terms with the Venetian Republic. Private Ham burgh letters say the Geneva Congress to settle the definitive peace is delayed by Russo French talks on limits. Count Woronzowi is named Russian ambassador to the Congress as French armies pull back through Germany and Zealand.
A morning paper summarizes a dispatch from the British government via Calais to the Executive Directory in Paris. The flag of truce returned to Dover with a French messenger bearing the Directory’s answer. The substance is that France is ready to discuss a Nevo plan and welcomes further talks on behalf of Count.
The city of Venice endures a dreadful day as crowds tear down the new municipality’s manifestos and assail buildings in St Mark's Place. French troops arrive, 3000 lands at St Marco amid calm. a 60 member new municipality spans Greeks, Jews, ex nobles. nobles reclaim titles. government returns to a democratical state resembling five centuries past.
Hague May 27 The Convention decrees a single National University in the Batavian Republic to be at Leyden with three academies at Harderwyck Groningen and Breda It also defers slave trade regulation to the Legislative Body leaving Negroes likely to remain enslaved in Dutch West Indies for the time being General Caradels returns from Paris.
Milan reports the Venetian Commissioners secured peace conditions with General Buonaparte. The treaty preserves part of the Terra Firma under French control, restores a portion of it when Italy’s political system settles, and places Venice Fort and Arsenal under French possession with fleet access. Venice pays 80 million livres. Political prisoners are freed. Venice’s government is replaced by a provisional democracy. Three inquisitors are to stand trial.
A report claimed General Hoche led a march toward Hansver, but it proved unfounded. A regiment passed Marburgh on its return from Frizlar toward Berg, part of the North Army retreating from Germany to Holland. Moreau’s forces withdrew from Swabia to the Rhine while Vienna and the Directory redraw provincial exchanges as the congress stalls. Fraser, English minister at Hamburg, sailed to Cuxhaven to greet the Prince of Warrempere and Royal Court arrival.
Shipping news from Sheerness Plymouth and Torbay covers mutiny actions and wrecks. Britannia Micente and Williams Strickland captured in West Indies with Strickland killed. Lord Northesk to return with answer within hours. Deck punishments and prize shares debated. Firm gun-boat escaped mutineers. Plymouth reports Anson taken and retaken. Port Rico expedition noted. racing controversy at Epsom involves Paroquet and Corner. jockey injured and bets unsettled.
Report from Venice notes four lives lost during seditions and government suppression. A new municipality proclaims to preserve public credit by guaranteeing the Bank and paying the public debt contracted by prior rulers. Trieste evacuated by the French. communications with Germany open but mail requires French and Imperial Passports.
The article states the new Italian Republic will have Adriatic and Mediterranean boundaries with Lombardy’s Milan as the capital. It lists included regions Bologna Ferrara Romagna Modena Mantua Vicenza and parts of Venetia with about four million people. It also notes France will leave 500 artillery pieces and mentions a change in Kent’s Lord Lieutenant with Lord Romnery named.
Notices recount marriages and deaths including Harry Bridges to Miss Watson at Mary le Horme Church, John Grainger of Bridge House Sussex, Sir Andrew Snape Douglas and the Archbishop of Canterbury’s daughter Miss More. Also a death of Charles Shipman aged in his 98th year and stock price snippets from Bank Stock listings.
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