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Newspaper
Evening Mail
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Sep 12, 1792
Page
2
Brusells reports detail Allied movements as Anglophone emigres and Prussian units advance toward French towns. Beaulieu forces push into Luxembourg area, encamping near Liege, with sieges at Trionville and Montinedi. Austrian and Prussian detachments raid, skirmish, and stockpile arms.
Reports from Luxemburg and Tournay detail clashes between French forces and Austrian troops around Stenay Balin and Stesay with several skirmishes. German and Prussian movements press toward Lille Courtrai and Roubaix as the siege of towns continues.
A fragmentary report states two captains and four lieutenants were captured, with about 50 men taken at the town of Rowhouse after resistance. It also notes a dawn assault near Warneton where 14 enemy officers and 400 men escorting batteaux were repulsed with considerable loss.
From Frankfort Auguste reports the Kiyo of Great Britain as Elector of Hanover has supplied twelve thousand Hanoverians, including fifteen hundred cavalry, to march and join allied armies. Rumors place a large Russian contingent en route from Poland to the Rhine as Poland frays with rebellion and division, with insurrection feared amid ferment.
A division of five Ruffian ships of the line and a frigate, arriving at Archangel from Copenhagen under Admiral Kannixore, is ordered to repair to Petersourg. A large body of Russian troops moves toward Poland and is expected to march via Silesia and Bohemia toward the Rhine.
Counts Horn Redding Lilienborn and Ehren duardt, four conspirators in the plot against the late Swedish king, reached Copenhagen on August 21 and continued toward Italy. Horn was recognized at Helsingborg and jeered by the crowd, one assailant striking him with a stone.
In a London Old Bailey case, John Hickman is tried for forging a receipt altered to claim 339 pounds owed on a joint bond with John Brooks. The prosecution argues the forgery threatens security of negotiable papers, while the defense cites lack of final judgment and writ of error. The jury returns guilty verdict after discussion of evidence and legality.
John Smith testifies he was assaulted near Ball's Pond Islington on the night of August 1. He was knocked down by two men, one of whom struck with a cutlass while the other looted his watch and a shilling. The prisoner, Rosbery, is alleged to have struck first and the mob fled after calls for murder. Several bystanders corroborate the scene and the assailants left a cutlass and marks of blood at the site. The session lists many prisoners including Leary and Broaderie charged with murder and Simmons with rape.
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