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Newspaper
Evening Mail
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Oct 08, 1792
Page
3
A letter from Custine reports capturing 400 prisoners after pursuing retreating Prussians to the Rhine and Spires, with thousands more taken, vast magazines found, and praise for troops. other letters recount Laourdonnaie and Neutty actions, Hessian fights, and Prussian plunderer resistance.
Letters describe ongoing war preparations and troop movements toward France. Reports mention Brunswick’s retreat to Grand Pré, Austrian military actions, sieges, and French parliamentary figures summoned to Luxembourg. Lille bombardment continues with heavy and light cavalry details and a declared oath by city defenders. Lik reported as surrendered or burning.
The Council of Lisle reports ongoing enemy bombardment since a dispatch of Gen darmes, with cold and red hot bullets bombs and arson destroying hundreds of houses, especially in Saint Saviour parish. Citizens endure losses bravely while vowing not to yield as fires wane at ten o clock. Two hundred houses burned with two hundred more damaged.
The Mareschal Paysecur estimates 120000 men need daily bread totaling one thousand sacks of flour. Forage demands for 30000 horses require two thousand wagons to cover four days, with Champagne plains lacking corn and forage already destroyed, worsening disease and retreat of the Duke.
The Violet Soap patent battles warn the public against imitations as Hartand Co. shifts production to Surgey Lover Chemical Laboratory. An official bill of directions accompanies each package, with certificates asserting genuineness. Offices now operate at 102 Bank Buildings and Bromsbury Senate for noble patrons.
Mr Dawson of Liverpool presents a petition to the East India Directoral seeking permission for three Guinea ships to sail around the Cape of Good Hope to explore the eastern coast of Africa. A series of shipwrecks and losses follow in a gale near England with multiple vessels reported missing or damaged. Also noted are thefts from a New Street home and a scaffold accident at a noble house, leaving a man grievously injured.
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