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Newspaper
Evening Mail
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Sep 15, 1797
Page
2
A long report discusses ongoing Paris events affecting peace prospects, noting delays in formal talks, suspicion about negotiations, and the potential effect on ministries. It references dispatches by Brookes, Vick, and Panter, and cites the revived mobilization and royal caution amid the latest revolutionary developments. It also notes a severe storm and wrecks offshore, with fears for lost packets.
A fragmented report records ships and privateers in the West Indies and European waters. Vessels named include the Botsey Ge, Two Friends Merritt, Commerce from St Domingo, Industry Anstruther, and the Mary Black, with captures by British and French privateers near Guadeloupe and Dover. A convoy from Plymouth arrives before a gale delays troop transports. De Braak and Phenix proceed with a naval convoy. Sparrow under Lieut Peers reports storming a fort and capturing six sail before Tartar suffers a wreck.
Vienna reports dated 26th ult. state that the Directory resists restoring Mantua per Peace preliminaries. Paris dispatches claim Britain must yield all conquests and Gibraltar to France and allies, despite hopeful peace signals. Messenger Brookes dies in Calais incident. Mrs Brookes to receive a pension.
The report lists race events and horses from a midweek meeting including Majestys, Ld Hamilton, Tatton, Belle-Vue, Vis-a-vis, The Hunters Stakes, and Capricorn. Entries note several four mile heats, a dead heat, and multiple breeders and owners such as Ellis Boate, Barry, Leicester, Saville, and Purke of Gol with results and placements across various stakes.
The Abingdon program lists Tuesday race events headed by the Members' Plate of Fifty with Play or Pay odds favoring a favoured entry. Notable horses include Kerenfiappuch Paroquet and Harriet among ch m Miss Edwin, plus several b h and b m entrants from Darlington, Dolphin, Turner's, Knight, and others. The Hunters' Sweepstakes at fifty nine and other entries feature Stork, Justitia, and Brork as contenders with varied weights and statuses.
In Whitehaven the hay loft at Thomas Wadman’s Long Newton property burned between ten and eleven on Saturday night. The barn and outbuildings were destroyed, the dwelling badly damaged, a family member nearly perished, and a cow suffocated. Loss estimated above one thousand pounds with hay crop in the county described as plentiful.
On Thursday H Swan was elected mayor of Lincoln while in Derby Rev Cua Steap assumes the role. A London court gossip notes Miss D eloped from Essex with Mr H from a public office family. A series of militia movements and fair conditions across Essex and Kent are reported, with regiments marching to sites including Bristol, Plymouth, Canterbury and Deal.
Wheat prices rose at market with barley rye and oats higher while tea sugar and coffee markets also edged up. The report notes shipping and naval happenings, a drowning in Newhaven, a woman delivering twins on the road, finds of antique armour near Croydon, a Dorlysshire maid’s failed attempt at nobility, a rescuer saving a drowning woman, and a Derbyshire arsenic death in Chesterfield Workhouse.
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