Prodigious Warlike Stores and Fleet Movements
Cadix reports a prodigious quantity of warlike ammunition and fire-works believed aimed at the West Indies or the Mediterranean. Veteran troops are redeployed along fortified ports to relieve coast militias. Privateers capture prizes from Ostend and Imperial ships, while nine hundred Miquelets and garrison forces clash near Fort Constable and at Rotes with heavy casualties and prisoners. Paris notes Brittany court appointments and transferred forces, with 12,000 already there and 10,000 more en route.