Landing of Buonaparte in Egypt and naval battles report
The issue notes Buonaparte reaching Cairo with his army after July, a decisive British victory over the French fleet reported by the Redacteur, with ships burned and others wrecked. Admiral Nelson’s pursuit near Syracuse is described, plus Milan and Ligurian Republic revolutions and ongoing hostilities on the Rhine and Italy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bec
Alexandeia
Council of Five Hundred
Buonaparte
Cairo
Newson
Agth Iift
Majta
Alexandria
Nile
J Beutys
Belaures
France
Gulph
Gascony
Tore
Ship News from Plymouth and Deal with Various Updates
Plymouth reports arrival of the Fabella from Demerary with coffee cotton and sugar bound for London. Several vessels were sighted or encountered in gales and praiseworthy acts as captains took command after losses. Also mentioned are banking discussions, political elections, disease outbreaks, and global military movements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fabella
London
William Wilson
Demerary
Newbury
Liverpool
Benjamin Heard
Sarah
Africa
Doftor
Kitty
Tuscar
Ireland
Lord Dullon Succeeds to Blue Riband Amid Irish Turmoil
In Dublin on September 7, Lord Dullon inherits the Blue Riband after Lord Cuarner Ricarde’s death. French officers and soldiers captured by Lord Cornwallis’s forces under Gen. Lake were moved from Dawson Street to the Pigeon House and then aboard frigates and transports bound for England. Crowds witnessed the so called French invasion’s final exit. The French rebels were marked by cruelty and cowardice, while the British faced shortages of silver coin and difficulty getting change for payroll. Yeomanry duty ends as troops rest, and a large infantry detachment begins dispersing plunderers and arsonists in Wicklow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marcray
Portfolien Wardmore Court
Frower
Jons Suaw
Philadelphia
Chester
Trenton
Ennars Frrzcerato
Paris
Hamburgh
Egalité
Duke of Oxeans
Suffolk
Halifax
Nova Scotia
Royal
Prince
Bohemia
Moravia
Austrian Poland
Vienna
Lodomeria
Gallicia
Buckowine
Ragusa
Jerusalem
Leicester-street
Dullon
Lord Cuan- Ricarde
Lord Cornwallis
Lake
Dawson-{treet
Grand Canal
Portsmouth
Wicklow
Conflicting French Officers Rise From Odd Origins In France War
A fragmentary report notes generals with unlikely backgrounds in the Vendée conflict including a jockey and a cheese buyer. It lists Roy Agnol as a goldsmith, L Echelle as a fencing master, Muller as an opera dancer, and Grignon as a drover, suggesting obscurity of leaders before the Revolution. The piece then describes a brutal Irish crime near Bundoran where a wedding ruse led to a grievous assault, and mentions footpad robberies near Morden and Kingston Road with suspects detained at Bow Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Humpert
Iréland
la Vendée
Roy Agnol
L’ Echelle
Muller
Grignon
Bundoran
Ballynamona
Ireland
Leaver
Wandsworth
Morden
Grisare
Sohosquare
Kingston Road
William Roberts
Samuel White
J. Froup
Bowstreet
Dartford
Oxford Charter City Elects Harpy Mayor for Year
Monday last Tuomas Harpy was chosen mayor as Tuomas Harpy Gent led the charter city officials for the year. Bailiffs Wentweary and Swier were named to serve the city alongside him. A week earlier James Morrell traveled from Compton Berkshire with his family when robbers struck between Botley Furlong Gate and Catle Hill, removing two large trunks loaded with clothing and valuables. One trunk was found rifled in a roadside ditch. police suspect a London gang connected to recent local offences.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tuomas Harpy
SterHen
Wentweary
Joan Swier
James Morrell
Compton
Berkshire
London
Coroner's Inquest Into Death Of Walter Watkins At Charing Cross
A Coroner's inquisition in London found that Walter Watkins a respected optician of Charing Cross died from an apoplectic fit after a gathering at Gordon's house in New Compton Street Soho. Witnesses described vomiting inability convulsions and treatment with warm water emollients. A physician and apothecary testified the stomach overload with ale contributed. The jury returned a verdict of death from a fit of apoplexy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charing Cross
Watkins
Duke of
Elizabeth Walker
Hartshorn
Harris
Robert Smith
Compton-Street
Gordon
Perasons
Charing-cross
Winfield
William Winfield
Smith
Marriages in Kent London and Sussex
Marriages announced from Charlton and St Mary le Bone list Captain Wormely of the 1st Staffordshire Militia to Miss Watson, Ralph Caldwell to Miss Scutt of Brighthelmstone, George Warden to Miss Weomerton, and Thomas Markham to Miss Carne of Nash.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charlton
Kent
J. Watson
Wormely
1St
Staffordshire Regiment of Militia
Miss Watson
Jonathan Watson
Colonel Bullock
Essex
St. Mary-le-bone
Ralph Caldwell
Hilborone
Norfolk
Miss.Scutt
Thomas Scutt
Brighthelmstone
Sussex
Lisbon
George Warden
Mifttane
Miss . Weomerton
Richard Woodmerton
Royal Navy
Thomas Markham
Cheltenham
Alus Carne
Obituary Snippets From London and Accra Roads Notices
A fragmentary notice set records of deaths and commemorations. Sir Jonathan Wips at St Stephen’s Cornwall and George Hadley once with the Bengal Establishment are named. Wimbledon’s Abraham Hatchett aged 79 is noted for decades at the New White House Cellar Piccadilly. Richard Buckall, aged 25, commander of HMS Serpent, died on the Africa coast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Stephen's
Cornwall
Jonathan Wips
Gloucester-street
Queen
Quare
George Hadley
Engal
Wimbledon
Surrey
Abraham Hatchett
White House
Piccadilly
Accra
Africa
Richard Buckall
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Londen
Milan
Trévve
Othe
Rhine
Plymouth
St. Helen’s
Deal
Pilgrim
Grenada
Melantha
Hardie
Antigua
Estridge
Cleghorn
St. Kitt’s
Rialto
Evans
Wind S. W
DBL
Wind S.W
Sheerness
Freland
Dublin
Oxford
Walter Watkins
India
Loupen
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