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Newspaper
Evening Mail
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Oct 16, 1793
Page
5
Fragmentary excerpts evoke royal memory and tragic figures including Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI, with lines alluding to remembrance and sorrow. The text blends archaic English phrases, theatrical asides, and scattered names, suggesting a collage of literary references rather than a cohesive article.
Postscript reports stocks at one o clock with a4 per cent. The Count d Arrois leads a French cavalier contingent from Hamm toward Lyons to bolster loyalty amid the siege. Spain claims a decisive victory near Perpignan, with 7000 French casualties and 10 artillery pieces lost, prompting expectations Perpignan may open to the Spaniards. Also notes royal court movements, a Windsor ball for royal family, and military appointments and expeditions in progress.
Summary notes Poland’s Diet under foreign troops faces threats of Prussian-backed invasion and tyranny. Deputies sign a forced treaty amid Berlin pressure, while rulers and officials in Britain discuss naval, military appointments, and public works.
Regiments of Foot, the 27th, 434, and 57th, have arrived from Dixmude and encamp before the town’s west gate. Seven transports lie at anchor in the harbour awaiting embarkation fate, possibly to Toulon or the West Indies. General Srusnd arrives from the Duke’s army where he left life and Toazngy. Headquarters at GCafin. No major clash yet with our army.
Sentiments of commanding officers on continuing the camp beyond its intended time remain unannounced. Ten more regiments reportedly ordered to join, forming a larger army stationed in separate coast cantonments connected by lines of communication. Several officers who planned to resign have reconsidered and will stay to defend the country amid the threatened danger.
A detachment from the park artillery at Canterbury marches to Woolwich to embark for the Continent. Radnor Militia will depart the city tomorrow, making way for the Sussex Militia due Friday for winter quarters. Reports note planned barracks are not yet begun and likely won’t this winter while hops harvest ends with a general average of about one cwt per acre, higher in Peckham, Hadlow, and Tunbridge.
Dublin reports immediate orders for the Regiment of Horse Bines to join the corps of British cavalry destined for the Continent. Cotton factories, idle for a period, have resumed brisk business the same day or by tomorrow.
The Jefia, Chapman, with sugar and molasses, is captured by the Sans Pareil French privateer and brought into Charlestown. The Apollo letter of marque, Capt. Fawns Haw, belonging to Guernsey, captured a large French bark laden with flour and brought her into the same port after her crew deserted to the long boat.
On October 14 a ship from Hamoaze sailed to Spithead to join Swiftsure under Admiral Kingmill flag. Ferret with 12 guns and a victualler convoy sailed to Torbay. Viper cutter with 14 guns under Lieut. Pzn GELLY is appointed to convoy trade to Milford and sails tomorrow morning.
Portsmouth on October 17 reported the Swiftsure a 74 gun man of war under Capt Boyle with a convoy from Plymouth Woolwich a 44 gun ship under Par kett from Bristol and the Liberty Brig a 16 gun vessel under Searle from a cruise The Thames frigate a 32 gun ship under Capt Cotes sailed for Gibraltar
Plymouth reports dated October 16 noting the arrival of the Duke man of war and Aquie lon frigate from Portsmouth. It records sailings of the Orestes and Falcon sloops for Torbay and Viper cutter with a convoy bound for Milford.
Advertises apartments near London for pregnant women to retire with infants nursed on site. Promises discretion and protection of reputation, urging contact with Mr White the surgeon or Mrs White for guidance on concealed pregnancy. Also offers Restorative Sale Pills and a country house option, with post paid letters accepted.
On the 13th instant the Countess of Hardwicke was safely delivered of a stillborn child at Richmond.
Marriages recorded on Saturday include Richard Hanks a Limehouse timber merchant wed to Miss Gibbon daughter of the late Captain Gibbon of Wapping and on Monday at Tunbridge Richard Allnutts Enq of South Park wed to Miss Frances Woodgate eldest daughter of William Woodgate of Summer Hill. Died on Tuesday at Hammersmith in the Roth year of his age, James Gomme a builder and carpenter who worked in the area for more than years.
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