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Newspaper
Java Government Gazette
Location
Jakarta, Jakarta Raya, Indonesia
Date
Apr 23, 1814
Page
5
A lyric compare the rose to Anna her beauty and virtue. The speaker praises Anna as the fairest and most fragrant, while noting time will fade physical bloom though inner virtues endure and may flourish beyond the rose.
The log from the ship Ann records a January 3 1814 sighting of a suspected American privateer near Saugur Roads. The vessel is described as about 180 tons with bright copper and a small figurehead, two dolphin strikers, a long bowsprit and blue colored spars. Crew were noted as having blackened faces and dirty clothes.
A fragmentary 1914 notice notes a dated dispatch from Bombay conveying intelligence on two general actions in FerMAany grit. It mentions Allied commands and French army movements led by Puonaparte, with references to September battles and positions near Toep.
Reports state Dresden in Allied hands after a three day battle with heavy losses. Buonaparte refused conscription calls and now seems without plan. In Spain Pamplona fallen early August and Tarragona evacuated. Suchet with 9000 men believed to have surrendered to Lord William Bentinck’s forces. News came via Constantinople dated August 15.
The West Indies hurricane of July 23 levelled St Pierre Martinique wrecking many vessels with only two surviving. Plague ravages Malta cause heavy losses though British troops remain uninfected as July ends after 2200 deaths since May 8.
Septemssur 2 reports Vandamme dead of wounds at Brunswick and Schwerin surrounded as French troops pack up. Danes seize Prussian Russian Mecklenburgh property. Sept 3 Bernadotte defeats Davoust at Luckenwalde near Wittenburgh. Sept 4 reports Crown Prince’s army victorious against Davoust with Davoust wounded and proclaims defense of Hamburg. Wittenburg captured. Magdeburgh besieged. Davoust’s corps driven back with losses. Danish war claims, Baltic engagements, Moreau and Maitland linked to allied and Malta leadership.
A report lists strength and dispositions of French forces in Germany and Italy with 555000 troops and 100000 cavalry under Murat, plus senior officers at headquarters and in various theaters. It also notes Austrian terms pressuring evacuation of fortresses and restoration of Hanseatic independence, plus appointments of diplomats to Vienna and London.
Fragmentary unedited OCR lists marriages and births with names, dates, and places such as Bombay and Madras. Includes mentions of John’s Church ceremonies and various individuals’ nuptials and a birth announced by a civil service family. The text also notes a memorial for a Lieutenant J ard and other personnel.
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