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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jul 22, 1797
Page
2
In London July 19 1797 St James's an audience of leave was granted to Yusluff Adijah Effendi ambassador from the Sublime Porte. He was accompanied by Mahmoud Raif Effendi secretary and Emanuel Persianni interpreter.
Extracts reveal Vice Admiral Hyde Parker reporting victories at Carcasse Bay La Magicienne dispatching transports. capture of La Nativetas near Motonzas. and a string of prize vessels taken by squadron vessels including Swallow and Proselyte. Also notes Santa Margarita bringing in L Adour and the capture of a Bayonne privateer.
The vessel Betsey, after sailing 16 days from Newfoundlaga via Bristol, was captured off the coast and sent to Bayonne. The report notes the ship’s speed and provisioning, suggesting it could have inflicted heavy trade damage had it continued. Eleven lines mention Sam and Geo. Panksr or similar names and Vice Admiral King’s involvement.
Extracts from letters dated June 13 to July 20 1797 describe captures by Royal Navy captains off Portugal and Cape Finisterre.包括 brig of six guns and twenty four men, St Bernardo privateer with 12 guns and 75 men, and a Spanish ship St Jose y Nostra Signora de Begogna with 16 six pounders and 52 men bound to the Caribbean.
Letters patent under the Great Seal appoint the Right Hon. Charles, Earl of Ely, and the Most Noble Charles, Marquis of Drogheda, as His Majesty's Post Master General of Ireland, dated Dublin Castle July 17, 1797.
Bankruptcy notices list numerous tradesmen from Horsham Deal Oxford Street Wapping Grub Street Bath Clerkenwell Lime Street Penrith and more to surrender dates July to Sept at Guildhall with named attorneys. Enlarged cases for Craddock Bristol and dividends and certificates due mid August referencing multiple firms and locations.
A garbled list from a New London directory includes wine merchants G Grellet and T Elfwood, plasterer ant builder J Harwood, army clothier Alex Ross, and book seller Lous Du Miran among others with scattered street names such as Harleyford and Great Marlborough. The fragment references inns and tradesmen in various districts like Kennington and Bishop Hatfield.
Our readers learn the magnitude of Jamaica's trade from the latest entry at the Custom House. The ledger lists 16474 hogsheads 2198 tierces and 351 barrels of sugar 4430 puncheons and 208 hogsheads of rum 4859 cwt of coffee 474 bags of ginger 494 bags of pimento 0 tons of logwood 148 tons of fustic and 16 tons of lignum vitae.
Paris reports negotiations for peace near conclusion with assurances the Directory received telegraph intelligence on Dutch possessions in India being settled by negotiators of both nations. Also, Guingamp forms a Popular Society led by Guyomard, a former Convention member, resisted by authorities.
Deputies discuss reembarkation of shipwrecked individuals from Calais, a proposed declaration by religious leaders, and the growing Popular Societies. Calls for accountability of the Directory and Ministers rise as 8000 troops reportedly march on Paris and police changes spark alarm about public tranquility.
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