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Newspaper
Evening Mail
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Nov 20, 1793
Page
2
The note records stock prices for Thursday with prices in dollars and fractions. It lists commodities or securities alongside small numerical values, indicating a market update. It reads like a brief financial snippet from a historical page.
The Earl of Morea left for Portsmouth as officers boarded for departure. The fleet and transports are expected to weigh anchor today destined for the French coast possibly Mauritius. Indiamen carry flour and may join the expedition. Major Joxprek and family reach Spain after privateer recapture. Paris seen as brutal with guillotines and theatre crowds. reports on Marseille beheadings and Jacobin mobilization. Madame Roland's memory praised. Leopard privateer returns to Scilly with captured French prize. Druid privateer seizes a West Indiaman cargo valued at 2g.
Saint Maloes is described as a sea port in Brittany with a rocky island site, a causeway known as the Sillon, a castle, and strong ramparts. It notes a large garrison, no fresh water, rain cisterns, a 10,000 population range, and multiple harbours and forts including Saint Sezembre and the Rance dockyard. Trade with Spain and privateering links are highlighted along with historical sieges and a 200 mile distance to Paris.
General Ceai names the Marquis de Deruziner to lead the Legion of French Emigrants on Jersey. Reports from Brittany note a severe cannonade near Devax and Royalist movements toward Pontluron. Debates recount Marie Antoinette’s execution and Chaumette’s alleged plot against her, with further dispatches about Paris and public notices in London.
Philadelphia report lauds General Washington and leaders including Adams and Jay for averting French revolutionary influence. It credits them with halting privateers and preventing civil discord, noting M. Geyer’s appeal failed and was disavowed by oathbound testimony.
Yesterday arrived here the N piriphh of its Sir E. Peerew Knt and Sirce? of ae Ls Capt. Yorx both from Torbay. Came in the THisodoon 7 London. The Maft spite fleet of Dutch actanten Start under convoy of RS frigates. They were steering spa to be from Portsmouth la Wesland tapi.
Plymouth reports a Dutch squadron of about 40 ships, including a 60 gun ship and a 428 of war, joining vessels from Holland. Admiral Maceripe with frigates expected. Caesar of 84 guns may be fitted to receive his flag.
Sir Charles Grey arrived at Portsmouth yesterday from Banon and this morning boarded Sir John Jay's flagship the Boyne at Spithead. The Fury sloop of 16 guns under Capt. Bar Heron sailed for the daftward, the Fox cutter of 16 guns under Capt. Gigson for Gibraltar, and the Mutine cutter of 14 guns under Capt. West for Spithead.
The advertisement asserts a royal patent for Spilsbury’s Antiscorbytic Drops and states that after his death his widow, Mrs. Spilsbury, became sole proprietor and dispenser. It claims efficacy against scurvy gout rheumatism and blood impurities and notes the dispensary in Soho Square as the public source of relief.
Lately, at Ilfracombe, J. Lacey of London married Mrs Mary Sommers Down of Ilfracombe.
Last week at Epsom Surrey Jon Hodgson died on the way to Oswestry en route to the South of England for health recovery under orders from the Hon Mr Biron Hamilton of the Court of Exchequer in Ireland.
Deal ships report sailings on November 20 with Aquilla Gori bound for Orient under convoy Amphitrite while remaining vessels follow prior orders. A second note mentions Cornula Swedish ship and Frindhip armed ship returning with transports from the River. winds variable and mails.
A list of creditors meeting attendees including Robert Barclay Henry Summers and others with occupations from horse-dealer to wax-chandler. Various names with addresses and trades are recorded for a Warrhousemen meeting and related notices.
The fragment lists various financial instruments including Bank Stock prices 165 1/2, 3p C red 73 rehalf 1-8ths 3p C.Conl, plus India Stock values 207 3-gths a 2c8, Excheq Bills 1 5d prem, Lottery Tickets 14t 148, and January quotes for India and Consols with fractional notations, indicating a historic market snapshot with multiple securities and associated terms.
A fragment notes water levels reaching a high point this day at Lowpon Bringe with brief reference to preceding conditions and a time estimate. The readable text remains limited and lacks full contextual details.
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