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Newspaper
Evening Mail
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Nov 04, 1793
Page
4
A London issue reports a new Allied Treaty renewing engagements to crush the French faction and restore order. It describes continued military operations, British diplomacy, and fleet movements as European powers press for peace founded on religion morality and laws.
Private correspondence reports the French evacuation of Nieuport with depredations on locals including theft of church bells and lead. It notes the burning of East Dunkirk church, hurried Carmagnoles leaving weapons, transports from Portsmonth, and Sir Charles Grey surveying the region for enemy activity.
Le Patriote and L Extretenant arrived at Brest from Toulon after a fortnight at sea. They report being sent by English and Spanish commanders with two other ships. Couriers claim orders to cut all city communication. crews are confined and the captains slated for Paris.
On October 24 four large Engle frigates appeared in Havre's harbor. The Serieuse raised anchors and fled behind the batteries. A heavy cannonade followed but was not returned. The frigates then sailed away, still engaged in combat as they retreated from the batteries.
A Danish style bulletin notes multiple sea losses and captures. The Dutch sloop Jonge Gerard from Curaçao is taken into Boston. French frigates seize several British and Dutch ships and carry them to New York or the Chesapeake. Crews drown or are saved, with other vessels wrecked or stranded off Scaw Reef and near Memel.
Report of the incident aboard Admirel Grui s slip George near Toulon where a lower deck gun burst. Three killed Feil Master’s Mate and 22 wounded, expected to recover. August letters from St Eustatius note hurricane havoc at Amsterdam and St Christopher’s with ships driven to sea and many prizes stranded.
By the King s Patent dated February there is notice that Mrs Struszuky continues the Antiscorbatic Drops business at Soho Square she having prepared the medicine for years. The notice also records a marriage in Tooting of the Rev T R Wrench Chaplain to the Lord Mayor and Miss Clarke of Brentford.
Obituaries note the death of Elizabeth Nicholls at 82 in Cheapside on Monday last and Richard Hargrave a fellow 82, with Major-General Dixon of the Engineers passing at Exeter after a brief illness and Vandertin, Barrack-Matter, at the Upper Barracks Chatham aged 93.
The scene reports Santa Margaretta and about 20 transports arriving under convoy from the Eastward. It lists ships including Braham, Admiral Peyton, Quebec, Admiral M Bride, St Albans, Pomona, Triton, Eurydice, Hawke, and others. Additional notes cover mail matters and grain prices at the Corn Exchange in London, with wheat, barley, oats, and malt pricing details and market activity.
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