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Newspaper
Evening Mail
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Sep 17, 1800
Page
4
An 18th or 19th century verse appears to praise divine providence and nature. The speaker thanks God for health and protection, laments worldly ingratitude, extols the sun and harvest, and views England’s landscape as a call to gratitude and spiritual uplift. The author signs as H. Walker.
The post reports stock prices at one o'clock and notes a Vienna dispatch declaring renewed hostilities likely. It criticizes Bonaparte and the French government, predicts continued conflict, and argues European peace remains elusive amid French aggression and military moves toward Paris.
A mail from Limon via the Prince of Wales Packet notes Vigo taken and 15600 Portuguese troops marching to Ferrol. Abercrombie expected to land in this country and move into Spain against Cadiz. Paris reports hint at changes in the French government with an anniversary of the Republic and peace or new victories. The Portuguese are said to fight Spaniards with courage unless the French act, and a general sense of impending danger pervades.
General Preurery has returned to the Continent to transact business with Mr. WiemHAM. The Emperor presented a gold fault-box to the newspaper editor in Berlin for proving the French caused the Ratadt affair. Private army letters note gallant acts by the 52d and 14th regiments in engagements near Ferrol and Martinique, with casualties and deaths among officers and men.
Reports from Vienna Milan and Strasbourg note armlistice strain as Krav Count Kotow Rath resigns due to age and health General Lecourbe leads Strasbourg defense while Brune proclaims army resolve Italy braces for renewed hostilities with Mentz troops Mobilizes to defend Wartourg and Dijon prisoners flow through Mulhouse as talks falter
A Paris extract discusses Lord Warrwoarh, praising a skilled negotiator and his European influence with women in diplomacy. It notes his past postings and a society reception, then shifts to a meeting regarding high prices of corn and provisions in Oxford, urging reductions and a committee to prosecute price manipulators.
Ship news from Portsmouth reports a convoy for the Downs with the Prospect of warlike movement. Plymouth notes the Canada man of war arriving from a cruise and Neptune of Charlston detained by the squadron. The Boldona man of war sailed on a cruise as wind shifts noted at Eal on September 18.
Readings at Christ Church followed by Latin and English orations by Cautley and Pitman amid a large Royal Hospitals gathering. In Deptford a mob tried arson on a wheat and flour warehouse but was dispersed by Volunteers and Militia. Partridges proliferate in Kent and Essex. A Kent shooting accident left a boy dead after a gun misfire. a Bristol riding school pocket-picking incident ended with a near-fatal seizure for a woman who had fallen on hard times. A Borough woman in debt faced harsher consequences after a forged note case.
Fragments report a marriage between the Marquis of Bute and VEG Coutts daughter J Coutts with brief mentions of Frida events, a rector, and local figures. The text references Bentworth, Hampshire, and details some ritual or social notes amid garbled OCR.
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