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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Apr 04, 1797
Page
4
Obscure OCR shows a lord or chancellor issuing a wake for Friday next and summoning party members. Text is garbled but references a gate notice, a potential session, and the Lord Chancellor overseeing proceedings. Names and exact actions are unclear due to corrupted text.
Parliament considers readings of the Vagrants Bill and a payroll for extraordinary Army expenses from 1795 to 1796. Treasury and Bank of England measures draw sharp attacks over costs, with Pitt and Dundas defending and opposing riders on notes tender and distraint. Majority supports bill. Committee of Supply agenda postponed to Friday.
Postscript reports the King Queen and Princesses Royal arriving from Windsor and attending a levee at St James's Palace. A London Livery address is presented to the throne via the Lord Mayor. Privy Council brief, West Indies dispatches, and Bank of England elections noted along with India House directorate proceedings.
The fragmentary dispatch describes Venetian fortifications at Livenza and nearby towns, mentions French and Venetian forces, and references troops arriving for the Army of the Rhineland. It notes Cracow and Hungary, and a March/April timeline with cases of privileges and movements among allied powers.
Hanofer March 26 reports the Russian emperor has ordered a declaration to the Berlin cabinet. It claims the tsar would fuse with a tenth republic, threaten the Germanic constitution, and dismember provinces including ecclesiastical states. An army of 200000 would be mobilized.
From Gortz on March 19 the Austrian regiment accused of neglectful duty in the battle that led to Mantua's fall includes Batterman and Dentschmeister. Letters say if these regiments had acted properly Napoleon and his troops would have been captured. Latterman is said to be entirely broken, officers chastised, and privates sent to other corps.
Reports from Cologne say the 168th demi-brigade of Championnet’s division has arrived with the full division to form the army’s festival, while Macdonald’s Army of the North divisions head to the Hundtruck. The commander plans a grand organizational overhaul, with Ehrenbreitstein siege among early operations as reinforcements march from France and pass Brussels daily.
Brussels reports orders from the Army of the Sambre and Meuse to move all nonessential troops for interior calm. The 13th regiment remains at the fortress as artillery and infantry head to the Rhine. Assembly days stretch across Liege county. a Paris decree notes a small number of Frénich residents among those reassigned. Hospitals plan expansions at Aix-la-Chapelle. in the city 10,600 citizens, only 2,800 may vote this year.
STATGAARD March 20 The neutrality of the Duke of Wirtem is guaranteed by the Emperor. It is imagined that the forthcoming Diet discussions will be more than usually animated. Writings of inflammatory kind have circulated attacking noble migrants holding government positions with unusual severity.
Milan reports Proclamation by General Dambrousky urging Poles to join volunteers in Italy with French approval. It notes a Buonaparte secretary and a Carmelite monk in Poraut’s home, supervising ecclesiastical affairs and authoring many proclamations in multiple languages.
The dispatch recounts General Buonaparte arriving at Verona and establishing headquarters behind French lines. It notes his command view toward Friul and the Piave region, with expectations of his movement amid Austro French forces and tailors of firs troops in their fate. The report reflects cautious morale as French and Austrian positions shape the ongoing passage efforts.
The Sardine sloop with the convoy from Lisbos arrives at Portsmouth. The Caveley George from Jamaica to London springs a leak on the sixth of February and bears away for New Providence. The Manchester Kendall, taken on the Africa coast, is recaptured and carried to New Providence.
Waterford reports a French privateer stopped the American brig Fusileer about 40 leagues west of Cape Clear on Thursday morning. The privateer threatened to fire, forcing the brig to surrender papers. Captain Moses Fircomb and two seamen, Edward Dearing and William Stephens, were cast into the sea when the boat capsized. the privateer then sailed away, leaving the Fusileer unable to render aid.
Plymouth reports the Spitfire 20 guns and Captain Seymour board a French privateer of 40 tons near the Lizard after a five gun chase. The privateer, from France with contraband cargo, had not captured anything before. its crew escaped in the English brig laden with goods. The Maghanime frigate and the Revolutionaire frigate are noted as being at sea. Scotrage and La Suffragette sloops set to cruise.
A Spanish privateer schooner Le Conception has been captured and sent to Falmouth by His Majesty's ship Diadem under Captain Towry. Jervis's squadron is reportedly at sea again. Large catches of herrings reached Hastings aiding laborers. A pedestrian walked 40 miles in under eight hours along the Essex road. Smallpox spreads. in Durham a Mrs Hubbuck, 80, died recently leaving two grown children.
A brief listing of assorted securities with assorted percentages and fractions. Mentions Bank stocks 5 per cent and 4 per cent, Confols 3 per cent, Imperial 3 per cent, and New Navy stock phrases noting fractions like 47 8ths and 9 3-4ths. Reads as a market brief from a historical financial page.
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