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Newspaper
Evening Mail
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Oct 28, 1796
Page
2
A heated exchange among MPs on funding Navy Debt via extended Bills. Pitt defends the plan, Fox argues it harms public credit, and speakers weigh effects on discounts, circulating medium, and prospects for peace negotiations amid wartime prosperity and distress.
The committee resolved to provision 1 993 167 1 1989 for Navy Vitualling and Transport Bills by Oct 29 1796 and 2 500 000 to satisfy Exchequer Bills from last session. The House ordered the report be received Monday and agreed to resolving into the committee on the King's Speech about enemy descent. The day adjourned to Monday.
Dispatches from Cork dated October 19 1796 detail Vice Admiral Kingsmill’s letter confirming the French privateer Vautour captured near Scilly after a chase by Dryad Hazard and Viper. Included are additional summaries from Austrian sources on Condé’s corps actions at Mindelheim and Steinhausen, Moreau’s retreat, and Turin news of the king’s decline and death.
The Hamburg mail reports a French courier reached Vienna with Buonaparte dispatches, fueling public curiosity and speculation that a peace offer may be studied. Mention is made of Lieutenant Baron Strauffy, and Colonel Wilingss earns notice for gun-boat actions near Mainz and Ehrenbreitstein. The Prussian effort to rally German princes into a Saxon alliance is noted as a counterpoise against Austria.
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