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Newspaper
Evening Mail
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Nov 18, 1793
Page
2
Woncastan on November 19 announces the publication of a new Worcester Paver. The notice says the venture grew from solicited support among freinds and pacific allies and will be introduced at the market on Saturday the ath of January under a new title.
The notice promotes T Holl of 71 Jai Street as campaigner for public favor and newspaper readership. It urges readers to subscribe to a new Worcester Herald edition and pledges fair circulation guarantees to attract support against opposition.
Private letters from France reveal Lyons residents offering six million livres to the Convention to halt destruction. Rumors of Royalist movements from Noraundy to Brittany circulate without official confirmation. Reports note English naval and French counterrevolution pressures and troop movements toward Dunkirk and Furnes.
An eyewitness letter describes the retreat of French forces, a massive Jacobin onslaught, and widespread destruction. It notes 109,000 attackers surrounding Lyons, 30,000 with only pikes, heavy bombardment, and 500 million livres in damage. Famine, arrests, executions, and extortion follow as peasants face monopolies and famine amid civil war.
The text notes an intended expedition against Saint Malo led by the Earl of Morera. It describes the town’s rocky harbour defenses, historic privateering, and a 1788 British raid. It also lists regiments for the Duke of York's army and mentions plague burials in Philadelphia and local London incidents.
The Vienna crowd mourns the murdered Queen of France as Brussels reports the October killing. The public is angered at the French National Convention, with 40 060 Hungarian hussars said to seek revenge. Court mourning is ordered for 46 days and theatres close. The Grand Master Malta and Emperor note relations and French ports with Austria.
In London at Guildhall the Master and Wardens of Bakers learned the wheat average at 45s 3d per quarter and flour at 38s and cenn per sack. The Lord Mayor ordered a half an ounce or one penny loaf reduction to take effect tomorrow. Stocks and transfers closed dates listed. A naval accident at St John’s Newfoundland left a gunner dead, a sailor drowned, and a crew alarmed by an explosion. Robbery occurred near Cranford bridge with three watches and 18 guineas taken from two travellers.
Fragmentary OCR lists prize numbers 22 571 19 008 29 826 and 49 443 with entries like tool prize. The readable data show a sequence of prize identifiers without clear context or entities.
The Elizabeth and other ships suffer wrecks and damage in a hurricane. Privateers take prizes including Sovereign Harriot and Industry with Reddington and Crescent among ships captured. Several vessels from Jamaica Honduras St Vincents Antigua and Dublin are reported seized or sunk in the West Indies and Atlantic voyage routes.
Plymouth reports the Druid frigate of 32 guns under Capt Ellison arrived from Portsmouth with a lost anchor and cable replaced at the dockyard. A large fleet of tenders and vessels sails for the Bristol Channel and Ireland, plus the Little Jane bound for the West Indies. The 84 gun Caesar launches and will be coppered in dock. Alarm of 32 guns arrives under Capt Robertson and is to be fitted for the expedition commanded by Sir Jerom Vis and Sir Charles Grey.
Plymouth reports arrival of the La Nymphe a 36 gun frigate commanded by Capt E Perrew and the Circe a 28 gun frigate commanded by Capt J S Yorx from Torbay with the night of November 17.
On Friday last the Duchess of Dorset safely delivered a son and heir at Knowle in Kent.
Died items include Right Hon Lady Habella Aian Hay of Carville near Newcastle and Robert Bakewell of Tempe Leicestershire. Dernier entries report Mrs Bouverie of Pisa and daughter of Signor Moro tra, Mrs Kentiff of St Alban’s, and William Deedes of Canterbury, published with brief death notices.
The fragment lists a convoy of armed ships including Santa Margaretta, Union, and Princedward sailing toward Ostend under a southeast wind. Other vessels named are Admiral Peyton, Triton, Eurydice, Aquilla, Camilla, and Gorine with orders to Portmouth. remaining ships hold position.
A fragmented ledger style snippet lists bank stock prices and bonds with fractional quotes such as 3P Cavet 73 1-4th 3-Bths and India Stock 205. It mentions price of stocks, bonds like 23 2 2% and New Navy 9 1-4th. Datum resembles an old market page with various fractions and notes.
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