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Newspaper
Evening Mail
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Oct 07, 1793
Page
2
The document recalls decrees on price controls for essentials and fuels, pensions cuts, and new assignats. It reports military moves near Armentiers and Mons, treasure payments, and commendations for brave acts, with letters from commissioners and updates on Dagobert and Beaulieu.
An extract reports brutal actions by Republican commissioners and generals across departments. Royalists rally against levies, defend villages like La Flèche and La Sable, and claim brutal campaigns with heavy casualties. Generals Lacombe Dubayer and others retreat or attack, while civilians suffer and peasants resist.
A historic report notes the Emperor accepting a proposal to form a guard unit. The Noble Guard, led by the Prince, will include 50 members to serve the Governor General of the Netherlands, with the remainder under the Emperor in Vienna.
An excerpt describes ongoing marching and counter marching between advanced posts with no engagement. News from the scene remains limited as reports fail to reach the writer. The focus is on maintaining position and hemming in the enemy while daily skirmishes occur.
Portsmouth reports the Thalia frigate under Captain Grindall and the Pros pine frigate arriving from sea, while the Assistance Man of War sails to Spithead. Plymouth notes the Mayflower bound for Lisbon and the Diaderh warship's departure after thick weather, with arrivals of Brilliant and Ranger cutters. Obituaries list Mrs Pearson of Lymington and Miss Charlotte Vanfittart of Shottesbrook, Berks.
Arrived and sailed for the River with the Fat and Echo sloops and Amphitrite armed ship. Majesty's ships Brilliant Peyton Quebec Admiral Macbride Monarch Defends Powerful Bellona Ulysses Sheerness Triton Albion Union armed ships in the Downs. Transport ships to Madeira Leghorn and Jamaica. Wind eased. Defence and Bellona sail to Portsmouth. Remaining ships bound outward per prior orders.
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