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Newspaper
Evening Mail
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Nov 20, 1799
Page
4
The Adjourned Deputies may seek all forms of employment from the Executive Power as they join in executing a concerted plan. Representatives of the People should form a lesen jurimvent and elevate public minds with grand ideas. A failure to act courageously could end liberty.
A ministerial note urges replacing the forced loan with a War Aid levy and tax adjustments. It proposes honoring early payments by contributors, exchanging exchequer bills, and smoothing public credit while managing treasury needs for ongoing campaigns and payments. It emphasizes compensation for overpayments and a quick, orderly collection to restore fiscal order.
From the Paris Papers Strasburgh dispatches General Ney’s forces retreating to Mannheim amid superior enemy numbers. Miners and Seine battalion march to reinforce. Wounded General Loret and slain aide Sorbier noted. Cofleud’s attack near Kehl failed to push Austrians from Kintzig and the Black Forest.
A London commentary argues the first measures of the French usurpation are hollow. It denounces the Oath and Forced Loan, warns that provisional authority cannot secure peace, and predicts opposition from Jacobins and weakened Republican governance across Europe. It notes military moves and diplomatic arrivals as Europe unsettles.
An 18th century extract describes a warehouse fire in Thawerttreck linked to a recent outbreak from a Turkish cargo. Dr Coox, appointed by the Loan Mayor, reports to reassure leaders that no safe basis exists for public alarm about alleged contagious cause and death among Bull Porters.
Reports from Plymouth and Portsmouth describe multiple ships and convoys: the 110 gun Charlotte and 80 gun Sans Pérsic, with dispatches and troops for the West Indies and Lisbon. convoyed by the Wile armed brig, and the Trade and transports for Guernsey. A large force of over 150 ships sets sail for England, with the Helder reportedly blocked, and additional vessels bound for Gibraltar and the West Indies.
Fas Pile Jeremick Carty and Join Lem were charged with pocket-picking Mr Prafé in Hart Street as they moved to Covent Garden Theatre. Calty resisted. handkerchief recovered. Abbott and Tanner questioned for defrauding James Gibbons of an Oxford Street coat and breaches. A house near Ragmgo Wells yielded watches spoons trinkets shoes pistols and cash. Police to search, property valued high. Abbott who used alias Jones linked to fakes. Prisoners committed for trial and to return for further examination.
Tuesday the Sir W. W. Wyxne's Regiment of Age tent Britons, with 6 troops, arrived in Liverpool from Ireland after nearly three years on duty. They marched to Chester, dined at the hotel with Sir Watxiy and Lieut. Col. Puieston, and on Saturday moved toward Wresham where they were greeted by local cavalry and volunteers. The next day the Colonel and troops attended divine service and the congregation gave thanks for their safe return, their escape from a severe storm, and for protection granted during the voyage home.
Notice reports the marriage by Rev. Woodroffe of Richard Fuller of the Rookery Surrey to Miss Boulton daughter of Henry Boulton at Thorncroft in the county. A death follows: Frances Abbot aged 71, youngest daughter of Mr Abbot late of Canterbury. Also announced is William Chamberlayne Esq at Coley near Reading, commissioner for auditing public accounts.
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