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Newspaper
Evening Mail
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jun 14, 1793
Page
4
A fragment outlines a dispute over issuing a report or convincing the Convention to drop it. A manager asserts no Convention exists while deputies are forcibly removed and kept under arrest, framing the scene as an Order of the Day debate on procedural power.
The Convention withdraws leaves of absence and limits orders until new rules. Debate centers on a forced loan and penalties for harming state monuments. Angers deputation request sparks clashes as Bestabole and Lepaud clash over Committee references. Doulcet notes Angers deputies will inform constituents of proceedings.
The postscript states that foreign and domestic politics are unconsiderably postponed until Wednesday due to the variety of other news.
Prices of stocks at One Bank and government bonds show modest moves as fiscal data appears, while Parliament notes silence over M. Le Bauon letters. The piece discusses Mr. Fox’s planned motion on the present war and questions a potential plenipotentiary’s dealings with France’s temporary government and Marat’s faction amid the Jacobin era.
In Flanders near Menin on the 16th unit an engagement between Dutch and French forces led to 208 French taken prisoner. Several waggons and two pieces of cannon were captured and transported to Tournay the following day.
From General Quarters of the Combined Armies in Lower Alsace a report notes a few skirmishes avoided by orders aimed at restraint until May exée is captured. Deserters claim corps under General Heuchart grow disorganized since Gestine’s departure, cavalry regiments shrink daily, while General Wurmyer remains at Rafat with a steadily reinforced force.
From Zurcoing to Condé and Valenciennes the front tightens as Prussian detachments replace French guards. A balloon near Bon Secours carried decipherable letters signaling Valenciennes dire straits while a Citadel garrison fires on Lieres shells flying far beyond target. Spies arrested for inflammatory letters. a sortie by Valenciennes fails under Croat fire. General Ox conducts prisoner exchange.
Two fleets totaling 39 ships of the line with frigates and fire-ships anchor in the Bay of Cagliari. One division will remain off the coast to push the French from St Peter, while the other sails toward Naples to convoy vessels and support the Sardinian army against the French in the County of Nice.
June 11 report from Camp Valenciennes states 28,000 Austrians and 20,000 of the Duke of Yorx's army invest Valenciennes. Ferrars commands the siege with Hanoverian and English cover as Austrians block Condé Maubeuge Le Queshoy and Bouchain. The town is ringed by inundations and outposts near Saultan, Camp of Famars, and surrounding heights.
The June issue notes ongoing siege efforts at Mayence with Dutch cannon-boats near Coblentz and a raging epidemic. Reports mention Prussian actions, river enfilade from a small island, expected bombardments of Valenciennes, and political moves by French and British ministers. Other items cover theatre plans, local crimes, marriages, deaths, and shipping notes.
The French attacked the Prussians in a long engagement and, after heavy losses, carried the position. Carving the bridge remains essential, as dislodging defenders or advancing toward the Rhine approaches is unlikely without securing a key ace on the site.
On June 7 at Ypres Gen. Custine reconnoitred along the Lis and Vervik lines. The Camp of La Magdelaine near Lisle reported a flotilla presence that threatened Flanders but without effect.
Dispatches outline May clashes around Mentz with German forces under KaLKREUTH reporting to the French front at Co heim. French posts at Café and Landaux engage, sustain casualties, and repel probes while Hun lines at Hockheim and Spire attempts fail. Details note horses killed, broth made from hot water, and nightly cannoneer exchanges.
Reports list ships captured or retaken by privateers of Guernsey, Nantes, and Liverpool era. The Ative privatéer and The Paragon are described as captured and brought in. the Dudgeon and Jenny Liverpool/privateers seize a Swedish cotton vessel. The Mount Stewart and The Good Design face French privateers. The Betsey is lost. The Sarah is captured and taken to Chartertown. several vessels, including the Carnatic, are noted on the coast and bound to various ports. Continuous shorthand details reflect wartime maritime disruptions near Liverpool and Lisbon.
PORTSMOUTH This day arrived the Brilliant with a convoy from the Downs and three fishing boats taken off Havre de Grace. June 15 Arrived the Belerophon of 74 guns Lapwing 28 and Niger 32 with Earl Cornwallis Base Indiaman from the Downs. Venus frigate of 52 guns to refit entered harbour. The Jay Curry from New York to Havre detained at Plymouth by the Orestes sloop not the Warren Hattings from India. The Hinde and Crescent frigates captured and sent into Guernsey a privateer of 16 guns on 170 men.
The Orettes sloop Lord Firdnots arrived from a cruise and captured an American ship of near sea tons burden named Warren from Isle of France bound to Dunkirk. A fleet under convoy of the Southampton and Sphynx frigates passed Ig rag Westward toward Ireland. Sprightly cutter with convoy to the Westward sailed. Majestys ship Porcupine Perseus Scout and City of York tender arrived from various ports. Nianbana Weaies and Friends Adams sailed for Sierra Leone under convoy. Wind NW.
Edward Miles linked to the Warrington mail robbery on September 1, 1791, was arrested in Manchester on the eighth of the month. The case concerns a prominent attempted theft near Warrington with Miles identified as the person involved.
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