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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jul 18, 1797
Page
2
Paragraph notes the House of Lords discussing several bills from the Dominions, read first time, with hearings on various stages and adjournment following the sessions.
The House read the Deputy Clerks Framing Bill and a Naval Court Martial Pardon Bill a third time and passed them. The London Wet Docks evidence was reported. Lords agreed to public and private Bills with one exception. A debate on summoning Parliament on 24 days notice featured strong objections by Sir William Pulteney and Mr Pitt. The bill passed after a division 49 to 9 and was reported ready for third reading.
A London Gazette extract lists multiple surrender notices and bankruptcy matters. Individuals and firms from various regions including Abchurch Lane and Newcastle upon Tyne are named. Entries cover surrender dates in July and August, with attorneys and locations such as Guildhall and Star and Garter noted for proceedings.
Long dispatch draws on Hamburg Mail notes from July and Vienna papers. It cites Bank of Venice suspension, Turin calm, Dalmatian revolt, Austrian threats, new French requisitions, and Austrian Prussia tensions. Also mentions Naples paying for France, Buonaparte’s peril, and Irish oath acts with naval prisoners in Edinburgh.
Foreign intelligence reports Lefebvre and his aides moving along the Roer toward Duren with orders to keep fire. A courier from Pasig delivered counter-orders urging continuation. Lefebvre fixes headquarters at the Convent at Hlocht and imposes three months of requisitions for provisions and forage on exhausted regions.
July 3 report from Erlangen shows magistrates and Priffa forces clashing near Gotténhof with soldiers ordered to withdraw. Garrison aides retreated after injuries on both sides, crowds gathered as martial music was planned, and the commandant postponed further action pending new orders.
News from Vienna reports the back of Venice, once a leading European power, now ends payments depriving foreign merchants and life annuities of income. Marquis Grimadi resigns as Venetian envoy while further dispatches from Cetano detail six hours of talks between the Emperor and Baron Thugut on Italian upheavals. Gentili sails to Corfu, proclaims a restoration of ancient Greek republican ideals, stirring Turkish unease over revolutionary spread to the Morea and Aegean. Marquis di Gallo remains away as negotiations with Buonaparte continue.
On July 1 the Federation festival was marked by artillery and a solemn mass in Milan. Deputies from all municipalities arrived under General Buonaparte’s instructions and the banners of the Republic were raised after reading the constitution’s first articles. Authorities and military swore fidelity at the altar. Turmoil lingers in Turin as Piedmont’s finances shrink with over 20 million in banknotes in circulation and a debt of 400 million becoming hard to service.
Fragmentary notes show Turin news of the period with references to Procurator Macfaglia acting against rebels, bans on cockades and fancy hats, the French ambassador’s audience with the Sardinian king, and provisions and artillery sent to Mantua. The Pope meets Toledo’s archbishop Lorenzania, while Ferrara and Haloba troops unite to Venice under General Dombrowski. Neapolitan king pays a million livres as French secret-article pressure rises.
On June 2, Austrian forces advanced farther into Italy. The port previously held will be occupied by newly arrived Hungarian troops.
General Laudoha commands a large Tyrolese force as French troops tighten defenses at Palais Nuava and Ofepas. Artillery from Venice is deployed for the frontier. In Dalmatia, many Mordachians rise against Austria seeking a republic, but their effort appears doomed.
Report from Dublin notes the Independent Erectors of the City plan to abstain from electing Representatives, citing distrust of the current Commons. A brutal murder near Fieldstown robs a parish clerk, Hugh Read, of life. he was found with his throat cut after being attacked while transporting goods for Lord Viscount Strangford. Read leaves a large family of a wife and seven children.
The assembly on William Street next Monday will consider two fit persons to represent the city in Parliament. Candidates for the city include Lord Charles Fitzgerald and Sir John Blaquiece. for the county, Mr. Hamilton and Mr. Toler are named. The Earl of Ormond was added to the Privy Council and took oaths. 306 recruits for the Royal Irish Artillery arrived with Colonel Barber, all wearing orange cockades.
Brighton reports a lively but cautious July scene with many houses to let on the Steyne and the Prince's arrival expected Friday. Races are anticipated to draw crowds, the Cybers worry about returns, inns reopen without guests, Sublenient Book nearing completion, Gregory's raffling box the main amusement, Promenade opened Friday, weather favorable, and the theatre struggling despite Diddear's efforts.
Capt. Kerr’s Illustrious Prefdent reached Cowes on Monday from Batavia reporting a calm voyage via St Helena where the ship was well. Near the Cape the captain eluded a French frigate by maneuvering. Rumors say a Mauritius rendezvous seized several valuable American and neutral vessels. Nearby, the Kite and a prize cutter passed Aberdeen. the Two Brothers from Memel to Grangemouth, captured by the Dutch brig Piet Hein near St Abb’s Head, then steered toward Norway with captured ships.
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