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Newspaper
Evening Mail
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jun 26, 1793
Page
2
Reports from the Combined Armies at Herin describe vigorous fortification of batteries and trenches. Communications with stores advanced, first parallel expanded, and redoubts reinforced as bombardment continues with limited French casualties and enemy counterattacks repulsed.
King travels from Windsor to St James's for a Levee and Council then returns. Promotions at court include Major Campbell and Captain Anson. Marquis Curvedan, Lord Creve Lans, and others described. India House Court of Directors appoints seven inspectors. half-year dividend set. Rumors of Spanish fleet misread as French. Aristocratic fashion and Manchester Constitutional Society actions noted.
In a libel case a jury found for Mr. Dibdin with damages of one shilling after Mr. Swan and Mr. Bostock were accused of malice in a World paper paragraph about Sans Souci at the Strand. The court admonished fair criticism while condemning misrepresentation and malice.
Westminster School carried out its annual removal of forms last week. The noticeable progress of several classes showed in the enhanced conduct and rising credit of the esteemed seminary.
An extract dated June 18 reports the Vendée insurgents numbering 2000 attacking 1020 Royalist forces near Saumur on June 6. After a 54 hour battle the Royalists won, seizing enemy artillery and ammunition. General Gafon seized Saumur and advanced on Jegers. Nantes, Port of St Pere, Jadret cannon foundries retaken. Nantes surrounded. mayor Baco imprisoned. National Guards refuse to fight. administrators named. Widespread anarchy in the province and insurrection in Dauphiny prompts call for Congress to coordinate wartime measures and potential peace overtures.
On July 2 bombardment began against Bellegarde Fort with Taix also damaged. Over 200 shells daily strike the ramparts. The Spanish Army of 23 35000 men is spread across the Ceret district with 9000 near Bot Goop, 5000 surrounding Broczarde, and 2000 in cantonments at Cereff Arles St Laurets Sailterets and Prai ifolle. Cavalry moved and artillery entered Rolex via a purpose road through Col de Pertizs.
Leghorn reports 22 ships of the line seven frigates and troops aboard have seized St Peter and Mageéelazne islands southeast of Sardinia. French garrison taken prisoner while two French frigates in the Bay of Cagliari are captured.
Frankfort dispatch reports on June 16 16 the first Hessian division in British pay departs for Flanders with a second on the 17th. Imperial camps near Mentz fortified by Prussian flotilla redoubt at Weiferaw. Mentz siege postponed as Austrians and Dutch move closer. Prussia's king to Berlin with Brunswick to Poland under Prince of Hohenlohe.
June 19 report from Luxemburg states Aror inhabitants suffer heavy losses as French depredations target convents castles and churches. Abbey of Clairfontaine sacked while magazines mostly moved earlier. Imperial and French forces clash near Cecet and Aig la Chapelle with French battalions decimated and few prisoners taken.
Intelligence reports that the States of Holland and West Friesland have commissioned ambassadors in London, Vienna, and Berlin to propose a congress at The Hague to address wartime conditions, stating the resolution was taken on the 21st of the previous month and aims to convene near the war theatre.
The day before yesterday Mr C F M Agent and Military Solicitor took the oath for his Highness Prince William George of Orange and Nassau as General and chief artillery officer of the Provinces and captain of a company to be established. The Stadtholder’s Court mourns Prince Lewis of Waldeck who died at Courtray from wounds after Werwick action.
Genoa reports two extraordinary Paris couriers delivering dispatches to both governments. They present threats and promises as leaders of the Republic consider the situation. An Austrian Sardinian defense camp forms, and a Spanish fleet of 22 ships and 7 frigates stands ready at Cagliari to aid by sea.
Last Monday week General Casa Bianca while traveling from Escarena to Lautorca with an Adjutant and four soldiers was attacked by a French patrol of fifty. The party fired, killed his horse, and the General fell severely injuring his head. His men believed him dead and left to seek succor. On return they found only the horse. the General had been taken prisoner to Saorgiog. The wound is not mortal.
Prices of stocks and government paper rise while a levee at St James's marks a council oath for Lord Lieutenant of Middlesex. Reports from Valenciennes detail siege progress, prisoner rumors, and executions. Dumourier’s arrest, burning of arsenal and church, and cautions about authenticity accompany dispatches from Paris and Marseilles.
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