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Newspaper
Evening Mail
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Nov 25, 1799
Page
4
The Proprietors announce incomplete 36 volume complete sets from 1758 to 1795 and later years. They note volumes for 1792 1793 1794 1795 1797 and 33 34 35 are ready or forthcoming. A General Index covering 1758 to 1806 is being prepared on an improved plan.
Extract from Lord Viscount Duncan’s letter reports the capture of the Dunkirk privateer Le Guerier by Captain Treut Searle aboard the Courier cutter off Lowestoffe after a 50 minute action. The privateer mounted 14 guns and 44 men, had 4 pounders, and carried the Nile brig, laden with coal. Master Stephen Marsh killed. two crew wounded. Also noted are a lieutenant Young capture of a small privateer and various bankruptcy and dividend notices following.
The Evening Mail reports political maneuvers with Archduke military actions, miscommunications at Vienna, and Russian troop movements in Poland. It notes court health boards, false plague burn orders, bread price rises, and public distress. It also covers French squadron movements, hospital staff arrivals, and local incidents including a fatal school accident and a duel inquiry.
Fragmentary OCR notes describe ships and captures with references to Bristol and New York voyages. The Nonpareil, Rofficer, and other vessels are mentioned as being taken and retaken, with mentions of the Beaulieu frigate and L Eole privateer. Details are scattered and uncertain.
Deal reports the gun brig Piercer carrying 33 Ruffian troops and 7 Dutch prisoners. The Nile armed lugger and Stag cutter sailed west with coasters. Lieutenant Younse’s cutter captured a French privateer near Dungeness, while the Danish brig Jagenborg, en route to Barcelona, was captured by a French privateer and brought to Calais.
Sheerness, Nov. 25. The dArzo and Santa Margarita failed, and the Zebra arrived this morning. On Saturday, arrived from the Texel a Dutch careening hulk, longer than the beer hulk at this port, deeply laden. This day arrived from the Texel a Dutch ship of 44 guns. a Dutch frigate is reported to be in sight.
Falmouth dispatch reports His Majesty's Packet-boat the King George, Capt. Wescomer, filed today for Lisbon carrying the mail of the 19th instant.
The Thégryena frigate under Captain D. Lucyn reached the Humber and is to sail Monday with a fleet for Mamburgh Bremen and Embden under convoy. A Swedish vessel incident near the dock saw a seaman assaulted by his captain who threatened violence as bystanders intervened. The captain hoisted colours and the matter was referred to civil authorities who jailed the mate until danger passed. he was later released on bail.
A brief report covers Capt Troy-Bri Bor receiving the title of baronet from the crown for his active service. It notes fatigue from twelve months of duties, praising his abilities as a general engineer and sea officer amid fog disruptions and dramatic mail coach incidents in Liverpool Exeter and Port towns. It also recounts a French privateer capture near Weymouth, a Weymouth volunteers effort, a Somerset brig seized in harbor, a future Porter Brewery venture at Portsmouth, and multiple street robberies including a highwayman near Fulham and a watch theft in Cornhill.
Fragmentary lottery notice from 19th century issue lists prize categories and numbers with unclear entries. Key items mention prize types and corresponding numbers, but many words are garbled or missing, leaving incomplete descriptions of events and awards.
From Portsmouth a Bow Street officer and two prisoners arrived in London with Jean Sanford alias Pirce, and Jean Baptiste Frelda duty bound for Botany Bay. They were sent to the House of Correction after capture on the West Indies voyage. A porter convicted for delaying a parcel in transit faced full penalties. A remarkable China tree reportedly bears peas and white berries like hazelnuts, used for candies, with a white wax plant valued for its resin. A boy of two years nine months astonishes by imitating tunes after two hearings. A tornado at Tynemouth Barracks uprooted trees, and a man found dead near Barrow Hill drawbridge, likely not murdered, drowned in darkness.
Fragmentary local notice reports a marriage involving Major O Loghlin and Mrs Dupre, with scattered details about a London market day. The text shifts to a price and commodity report listing wheat, flour, oats, seed, hay, and various grains with quoted prices, totals, and trends, reflecting a bustling rural commerce page.
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