Stocks at One O Clock Prices Reported
Postscript lists Bank Stock at 168 1-8 for 3 percent Corfla shows 74 3-8. These quotations reflect the day’s trading values as recorded at the one o'clock mark.
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Newspaper
Evening Mail
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Nov 15, 1793
Page
2
Postscript lists Bank Stock at 168 1-8 for 3 percent Corfla shows 74 3-8. These quotations reflect the day’s trading values as recorded at the one o'clock mark.
Late dispatches describe Royalist advances in Normandy and threats toward Rennes. Paris papers note executions of several officials and a drawn out conflict as European powers mobilize fleets, with naval reinforcements for East Indies and American trade disruptions shaping strategic stakes.
General Beaurieu reports a costly engagement near Namur with French forces, praising armed locals for aid but urging they be paid regular wages to ensure loyalty. Dispatches note Republican reinforcement and preparations for a large Allied force arriving from Germany, with up to 50 000 troops expected by mid December to join the Duke of Courtnou.
Descriptions from Hamfeld near Landau recount a daily Prussian bombardment of Landau since Sunday, with fires set in many houses. Prussians abandon the fortress for winter as French Royalists and Imperial Palatine troops prepare to blockade. Artillery shifts aim to drive Republicans from advantageous positions while desers and wounded arrive at General MWurmiere’s camp.
Novel dispatches from Manheim report fresh Army of the Count Jürm forces nearing Landau with more to follow. Imperial troops fill vacancies from the Brisgau crossing the Rhine at Stolhofen. General Count Wallis leads a corps assembling to cross near Strasbourg and threaten the Prevaca from the rear.
Reported near disaster as Pitt of Dover from Ostend ran aground on Goodwin Sands before finding a harbor. Government to tighten searches after two Danish ships were captured by Alligator privateers. Sweden sees a disturbance quelled by the Chancellor of Justice. Camden Balt Indiaman resists a press gang with a 66-man crew and six sailors aboard.
On Tuesday morning about eight o'clock departed this life his Excellency Joan Hancock Governor and Commander in Chief of this Commonwealth aged 57 The same day the Sheriff publically declared his Honour Samuel Adams Esq Lieut Governor to be his Successor.
A Dublin Port-hall meeting of the Corporation of Stationers considered amending the Freeman's Corporate Oath to admit Roman Catholics to the guild. Proposals to omit the anti Catholic oath failed as opponents argued it violated the charter. Other reform plans were debated and a vote led to several members withdrawing. Also reported is the distress of the American ship Nabby at Lough Swilly after a sea accident. The 18 crew members and one woman endured four days at sea before taking to a long boat. The husband of the injured woman perished.
On Friday the French officer Hatreaux, who had a passport from Mr. Secretary Dunpas's Office, arrived at Brighton to embark for France. In his baggage a packet of 17 letters with seals unbroken was found among many opened letters and detained for inspection by the Custom-house officer for transmission to the Commissioners of Customs.
The remains of Mr. Tickle were privately interred at JTampton on Monday. Mrs. Tickle discovered her husband dead after asking for another glass of water. A broken left arm caused by the fall accompanied his death. Also noted are sales of Princets blood hunters, a Danish lighthouse on Anhalt island, authorities detaining 32 women in Freet-street, a fire at Denerr’s Jeweller in Frith-street, and heavy rains causing floods in Somersetshire with potential farmer losses.
Extra from a letter describes ships and movements in Atlantic waters. The Finaheen Norman from Stockholm, the Scroby Land sloop, the Ceres of Weymouth, and the Andromeda frigate near Cadiz are noted. The Rochefort capture of the Rosa Castanos is reported with diversions near St Vincent and the Goodwin Sands.
At Milford Haven yesterday a large number of seamen were impressed by boats from HMS Castor and the armed brig Dove. Captain Troubridge signaled sailing at noon, then by four in the afternoon ordered boats aboard various vessels, leaving no one uninformed and all men captured.
Letters from Plymouth report Earl Howe's ships cruising off the Lizard with several vessels damaged and likely to return to port soon. The Fairy, a 16 gun cutter commanded by Captain Bripces, will sail to Falmouth and Penzance to collect trade and touch all ports of the convoy on her return.
Nederday morning the Duchess de Pienne was declared to have a full-born child. News of the Queen of France being affianced caused her to convulse violently, placing her life in imminent danger.
Fragmentary OCR text reports an intended marriage involving a Mr Geng Bott of Birmingham and a Miss Bentley of Essex Street Strand with possible dates in Hagley Worcestershire and Thursday last. Details are garbled and names uncertain.
Notices report the deaths of several figures including James Halen M D in Warwick at age six, James Wolfe Be of the Board of Works in Whitehall, Robert Hamilton M D a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in Edinburgh in Lynn Regis, and James Modney in Alton.
The report records outward-bound and in-port Royal Navy movements with ships from New York, including the Amphi, Europa, Fury, Echo, and Union. Outward-bound vessels head to Cork Dublin and Portsmouth. several armed ships and warships, led by Admirals Peyton and M'Bride, are listed with arrivals of the Savage sloop and other warships at Sheerness.
Transactions list varied securities with prices and denominations. Entries mention Navy 9 3-Bths 1 2pC Conf, Bills, Tickets, Long Ann, Bank for the Account, India stock and bonds with multiple fractional quotes and par values.
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