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Newspaper
Evening Mail
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Sep 29, 1797
Page
2
The French army prepares for possible joint action with 4,000 Genoese and 0,000 Cisalpines newly raised troops. Ex-Jesuits lose pensions and must report personal details to magistrates. The Directory orders exact records of monks and nuns, threatening revolutionary change. Convents, especially the Mendicants, allegedly near dissolution by October.
London reports the Paris Gazettes arriving via Dover. Ber NADOTTE to rejoin the Army of Italy and Pittes takes command of the army of the South. The Directory cracks down on non republicans, theatres shut, and negotiations at Udina held in secrecy. Mantua is asserted as part of the Cisalpine Republic, officials confirm.
Yesterday Sir Daaxe arrived in town from Cuxhaven as Minister Plenipotentiary of Barrawnic Majesty Genoa. Major Raeres departed to embark in Gibraltar to assume an official garrison command. The French Council of Five Hundred debated celebrating September 4, while troops at St Roch and Algeziras were ordered to march to Gibraltar. Russian Emperor gifted two million rubles to buy property in Russia or Germany, and Prince Reza Tsuu to receive army entrants to Ruth. Lore Cuaxcertes left for Barferie. Lady Jane Duspas and Mrs Davarstonp departed for Walmer Castle. Sir Benjamin Hanmer may decline Lord Mayors Office, risking fines if he refuses. the Common Council debates. Mr Error’s loss weighs on friends, melancholy remains.
Yesterday the Livery of London met in Common Hall for the Michaelmas Day election. The Common Serjeant said two Aldermen would be chosen to the Court of Aldermen, who would then pick one for Lord Mayor. Sir Benjamin Hammer won the favor of the vote and was declared elected. The Common Hall thanked the retiring sheriffs for their service. An express was sent to Sir B. Hamner in Wales.
The piece notes French government proclamations as an “eternal war” against Pitt’s ministers and traces public opinion from calls for peace to condemnation of the Directory. It surveys press censorship, national debt, and the risks for creditors, annuities, and the wealthier classes amid revolutionary reform and the Cis-Rhenane project.
The James from Cape Nichola Mole with 20 merchantmen and transports sails with convoy under Janus and Quebec. The Stag returns from a cruise with the captured Dutch brig North Star bearing no papers. The Spitfire waits at Brest, while the Suffisante and Charon sail westward and the De Braak cutter arrives with a convoy from the westward.
The article traces a Windsor seduction case involving a colonel in the Guards and Miss P, locating the young lady from a lodging in Apollo Buildings Walworth to Clayton Street Kennington. It also covers police cases, theatre visits, and a Rica French political panorama, including La Fayette and Law era debates, plus flood-impacted Thames meadows near Richmond and Chertsey.
The article notes a fracture between the Ottoman Porte and the French Republic following revolutionary events at Venice and French expansions in Albania, Macedonia, Candia, Bosnia, and Dalmatia. It describes the Porte’s cooling stance, the removal of French officers, and Venice’s gains, while the Porte allies with Austria and Russia, and Moldavia acts against Polish emigrants after a failed Galicia invasion.
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