Dutch Fleet Movements and Welsh Expedition News
The Texel fleet reportedly left the Texel with 18 sail in sight, including 12 ships of the line, bound for Fluthing or Dunkirk rendezvous amid weather shifts. War news details Captain Dure's dispatches aboard the Seagull, Dutch and French frigates at Helveetiluys, and captures of prisoners from an attempted Welsh expedition led by Tarz. Reports mention Bantry Bay, Cardigan Bay landings, and plunder in Wales, with captains and officers held as prisoners of war.
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Esc
Dure
Texel
Wriay
Seagull
Admiralty
Dunkirk
Glenmore
Severr
Helveetiluys
Lord Caregen
Saturjorning
Wales
Tarte
Tarz
Athen Yican
Hocus
Ireland
Bristol
Cardigan
Bay
Bantry Bay
Irelands
Harwich
Lowestoft
Sears
Saunpers
Argus
Revenue
Durr
Hague
Duchy of Clevés
Prince Louis of Frama
Joan. Isayvis
Lagos Bay
Spain
C. Ghcuty
J. Jervis
St. Jourvis
Ourvan
Nelson
San Fort
San Nicholas
Joan Jervis
Santisima
Trinidada
Mahonznaife
Gibraltar
Lisbon
Laggs Bay
Lagos
R. Carper
Cadiz
Paris Gazettes Report On Italian Peace and Armistice
Reads on Buonaparte letters from Macerata and Foligno about a new peace armistice with the Holy See. Mentions Archduke Charles and forces moving from the Rhine, plus a Petersburgh edict allowing French goods in neutral bottoms. Reports arrivals of missions, court martial rumors, and notable naval transport arrivals in England.
Lagos Bay Action Prompted Large Prisoner Release
After a three day fight in Lagos Bay the enemy seemed panicked and did not renew. Some 3200 prisoners were landed with wounded spared, about 400 young men kept to attend them and later allowed to travel by land to Cadiz. The Portuguese opened churches to tend Spaniards and British wounded were honored. Commodore Newson joined Sir John Jervis two days before the action. News arrived of dispatches and various officials, with banks issuing small notes to ease currency shortage.
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Lagos Bay
John Jervis
Cadiz
Lagos
Spain
Newson
J. Jervis
Mediterranean
Minerve
Fempres
Navy
Admiralty
Lisbon
Lord Excin
Private correspondence on Italian theater of war
Privately circulated dispatches report 4000 Hefe Darmstadt troops in Carinthia joining the Imperial army under General Winzye Ce. French forces threaten Civita Vecchia as fortifications are strengthened and militia and cavalry are increased. Rumors claim English ships to be moved to Civita Vecchia and open trade privileges granted in Papal States.
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Hefe-Darmstadt
Carinthia
Winzye
Bolzano
Rome
Colli
Archduke Charles to command Austrian forces in Tyrol
The Vienna Court Gazette reports Archduke Charles will lead the Imperial armies in Tyrol Carinthia to restore discipline among Austrian troops. Papal troops lack strength to divert French efforts as they advance toward the Ecclesiastical State with 20000 native troops. A Dutch privateer recaptured an English merchantman after capturing it in the Elbe. French movements on the Lower Rhine hint at entry into Germany as Imperial forces head to Italy.
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Hamburgh
Archduke Craries
Italy
Rhine
Petersburgh
France
Maniia
Vienna
Tyrol
Carinthia
Bec
Bologna
Elbe
Lower -Rhine
Germany
Suffering at Mantua Garrison After Surrender
Extract from a letter from Hamburg dated February 240 describes Vienna publishing the capitulation of Mantua. The garrison originally 24,000 strong had 6,000 sick, 8,000 in hospitals, and most soldiers were emaciated by sickness and want at the surrender.
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Court of Vienna
Mantua
Neah
Mantua Surrender Sparks Renewed Italian War Drama
Vienna reports the surrender of Mantua as a setback that deepens war in Italy. Baron Decenreto delivers the news as hopes for peace fade, with 36 fresh battalions ordered to reinforce the Italian army. Wealth sent to Mantua is now French booty. estimates say 7 to 800 artillery pieces were left there by the French.
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Vienna
Frascas
Mantua
Baron Decenreto
Italy
Germany
Privateers and transport seizures port to Dieppe and Bourdeaux
A sea list reports multiple merchant vessels captured by privateers or frigates, with ships like Hare Haley and True Briton taken to Dieppe and Vigo. Other vessels, including Pomona transport and Nymph London, are carried into French or Spanish ports, while Plymouth notes sailings of Indefatigable and Greyhound for Falmouth and further convoy movements.
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Hare
Haley
Lordon
New York
Dieppe
Greaves
Lithon
Viana
Vigo
Pomona
Gibraltar
Neptune
Green
Jourdeans
Peggy
Bruce
London
Limerick
Naples
France
Constantinople
Delday
Portsmouth
Martinico
Bourdeaux
Aubin
Labradore
Sir 'E
Pellew
Falmouth
Greyhound
I. Perrew
Plymouth
L’etoile Brilliante Perre
Brest
Lord Brippert
Custom-House Sale Of Goods By Order Of Commissioners
Sale announced for March 7 8 9 10 1797 at three o clock in the afternoon in the Long Room Custom House London. Goods for Home Consumption include Ram Brandy Geneva Cordials Tea Coffee Sugar and other Grocery Perfumery Drugs Skins Biscuits Bed Pork Woollen Table Covers Seed Syrup Tobacco and related items. Catalogues available at the Tobacco Ground Greenland Dock Rotherhithe King's Tobacco Warehouse Tower Hill and Custom House London. Sale days and hours listed with viewing prior to sale.
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Laxpon
His Majesty
S Customs
Custom-House
London
Geneva
Greenland Dock
Rotherhithe
King’s Tobacco Warehouse
Tower-hill
His Majesty’s Warehouse
Estate Sale at Melford Suffolk Copyhold with Possession
In LONG MELFORD SUFFOLK a house and estate formerly of WithiaAM Kepinevon deceased are offered for sale with immediate possession. The property includes a large hall three parlours kitchen offices seven bed chambers cellars two coach-houses gardens and 3 acres pasture with a further 3 acres meadow nearby. Copyhold on terms equal to freehold with part of price retained. Plan available from Ireland Staples Inn Holborn or Richardson Attorney at Law Melford.
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Long Melford
Suffolk
Withiaam Kepinevon
Melford
London
St. Edmund’s
Bury
Newmarket
Ireland
Staples-inn
Holborn
Richardson
Paintepay J. Walter Printing House Nouse Te Quarter Brackeriars
Reading from an OCR dump yields fragmented names and terms such as Paintepay J. Walter and Printing House with unclear place or date details. The readable bits suggest a historical newspaper snippet possibly about a printing business or quarter notes but the exact event is not determinable.
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Postscript
Confols
Paris Gazettes
Florence
Fed
Buonaparte
le Comedie
Foligno
Holy See
Army OF
Macérata
Plovide
Diretoris
Mar
Sienna
Cortona
Macerata
Marche ‘d’Anconey
Piave
Pottetiien
J’ Umbri
Pérugia
Canorind
BuoNaPar Tee
Brussells
Charles
Becaripe
Zyrol
Intia Mats
Couper
England
Lord Garzigs
Gitbert E¢nnor
Warmou
Owstow
R. Strachan
Melampus
Jersey
Deal
Hillsborough
Lord. Thurlow
Glatton
Yarmouth
Godie
Prince of Wales
John Townson
Gray’ S-Inn
Hon. East Inndia
fFor
Cuantof- Pott
Rae
Péter Warren
Thompson
Bonario
John ‘Hompson
Edward Vaux
Grant Allan
J. Maitlandid
Robert Christie
James Phyn
Henry
John Meyer
John Taylor
Jj. P. Collier
Francis Newton
John Rodgers
Wm. Pofteré
IG O
Peter Mellith
W. Whitmore
Geo. Hetckell , Lushington
Bainbridge, Ansley & Co
F. Throckmorton
A. Robarts
Fred
John Bond
Robt Livié & Co
Coles, Godwin & Co
Vielfution & Brothers
J. P
Hankey Ra J. da
John
Alex. Anderson
Sheddon & Sons
Marryat
J. Caida &Co
Ra Ch. Herries & Co
Henry Bonham
Tavith, Fraser & Co
Wr. Christie
Dimsdale. & Clays P Fe
Jacob Wilkinson
A. Atkins
Goldsmid
Thomas Parry
J. B. Lowifada
Paintepay J. Walter
Brackeriars
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