Turbulent War News and Local Incidents Reported
Letters from Gibraltar describe Spanish forces withdrawing from St Roche lines and seeking peace with England while dispatches reveal mutiny suppressed on Swallow brig. Bristol Channel engineers plan signal towers and gun-boats stay near Milford. Paris fog halts life, and United Irishmen murder a yeoman near Cappoquin. Vessel Chacer wrecked near Rotherhithe, and Irish coast agitation unsettles Suffolk and Norfolk. A Lagpoleth church penance tale closes the item.
Gibraltar Dispatch Notes Reinforcements and Desertion Pardons
In Garrifort operations the governor orders regiments to attach men to the artillery brigade for siege readiness while awaiting a convoy. A soldier was executed for murder and another sentenced for desertion but pardoned as first desertion since the Spanish War. Skirmishes occur in the Bay with Spanish gun boats. a new plan attaches train troops to heavy guns. About twenty thousand Spanish lines prepare for a siege. seven thousand men would be ample for defense. An expedition against Tenerife failed, with convoys returning and civilians among the evacuated.
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Garrifort
Old-England
Royal Artilley
Spain
Teneriffe
Extract of a Letter from an Officer on board Gibraltar 1797
Reports routine naval actions near Cadiz Bay with 60 boats in three divisions and a captured Vera Cruz vessel carrying sugar indigo and cotton. Fleet to winter at Lisbon with a squadron remaining out until January amid expected Spanish convoys. Mentions seventeen line ships fighting thirty two frigates and other ships. Also covers clerical appointments, a rare white woodcock shot at Gordon Castle, and hunting notes, plus local price drops for meat and poultry, and two drownings near Whitby.
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Gibraltar
Cadiz Bay
Vera Cruz
Lisbon
Privateer Marie French and 14 guns veer to Byt
Fragmentary report notes the Marie French privateer of 14 guns being veered toward Byt with references to a Jafon frigate and oceanic movements. No clear dates or full identities are readable, but the fragment indicates naval activity and ship classes in a colonial or wartime context.
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Jafon
Grand Falconer Arrives With French Oysters Off Cherbourg
PORTSMOUTH NOV 27 Arrived yesterday evening his Majesty's cutter Grand Falconer Lieut Chilcott from a cruise off Cherbourg with Necessaire French oyster mack captured near the French Coast Put back the Flora and Ethalion frigates with the Lishon convoy They anchored at St Helens after twenty four hours at sea in a heavy gale of wind from the Westward The brig Aurora one of the convoy laden with soldiers clothing ordnance and other goods for Lisbon is come into harbour with the loss of her bowsprit Arrived the ship Scarborough from Cork with near 400 French prisoners on board His Majesty's ship Greyhound convoyed her to this port and then proceeded for the Downs with a fleet of tenders under her protection.
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Grand Falconer
Lieut
Chilcott
Cherbourg
Flora
Ethalion
St. Helen’s
Aurora
Lisbon
Scarborough
Cork
Greyhound
Downs
French brig La Marie captured near Belleisle by Jason frigate
Plymouth news reports the capture of the French privateer La Marie off Belleisle by the 38 gun Jason frigate under Capt. C Stirling after seven weeks at sea. It carried eight guns and twenty men, having discarded fourteen. The capture included two prizes, Friendship brig from Waterford to Newfoundland and the American brig Thomas from Bristol to America. Additional arrivals include Adelphi from London retaken by Cerberus, Surprize brig laden with rum, and ships Glory and Ramillies refitting in harbour. A Triton 32 gun frigate is reported in Cawland Bay amid a South West gale. The Borough meets tomorrow to fund-raise for widows and orphans of the action between the English and Dutch fleets off the coast of Holland.
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Belleisle
Jason
C. Stirling
Friendship
Dartmouth
Waterford
Newfoundland
Thomas
Bristol
America
Adelphi
London
Thomas Patterson
Ramilies
Cawland Bay
Triton
J. Gere
France
Flaig
Coak
Holland
Dutch Prisoners Escape From Yarmouth
Seven Dutch prisoners of war who are surgeons escaped from Yarmouth a day or two ago. Two cruisers were sent after them but they reached a neutral ship bound for Holland. The captains and lieutenants have been ordered away from the town to Eye in Suffolk.
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Holland
Eye
Suffolk
Marriage licence drama and Tiverton fire headline events
A Brighton church ceremony aborted after the clergyman learned a wife was married. The bride admitted spiritual impotence. the minister declined to proceed. Separately, a Tiverton fire destroyed fourteen houses in St Peter’s Street, reported with French aid aiding containment. In Dumfries, prisoners held for Captain Clark murder were moved to Armagh under escort.
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Brighton
Hymen
Piddinghor
St. Peter’s Street
Tiverton
Robert
Brooke
Orr
John Wright
Tolbooth
Dumfries
Scotland
Henry Clark
Law Intelligence Court of King's Bench case on gaming house
The defendant W Oldfield, previously convicted of keeping a gaming-house in Oxendon Street, had his judgment postponed on bail. He offered bail but was accused of reoffending by entering a gaming house at night near No. 5 under the Piazzas run by Searle. Lord Kenyon ordered commitment to Newgate until the next Term for formal judgment.
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Oxendon-street
Searle
Lord Kenyon
Newgate
The King V. Thomas Williams
Judge Erskine delays sentence in the Williams case after conviction for publishing Tros. Paine’s Age of Reason. He notes public interest and moral aims while Williams shows contrition and submits to the law. Court recalls Williams on bail until the next term as defense attorney Martin defends himself amid criticisms.
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Thomas Williams
Erskine
Tros. Paine
Martin
Williams
Himélf
Kenyon
King v Randall sentences for obstructing excise officers
The defendant, Thomas Randall, was convicted of two offences obstructing excise officers and receiving smuggled spirits. He was fined and imprisoned in Dorchester gaol for the first offence until payment, and sentenced to twelve months for the second offence in the same gaol.
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Thomas Randall
King
Dorchester
Adulterous Plot Leads to Guilty Plea and Discharge Rule
In a criminal conversation case, the defendant Gaede Bad Bs pleads guilty after an amicable settlement between the husband and the adulterer. The plan involved staged actions and costs of divorce, with the plaintiff seeking judgment as the jury returns a verdict for Soul before the court grants a rule to show cause for discharge.
Robbery on Putney Common and Beddington Road
Reported thefts in London area describe Noah of Goodman's-fields stopped by three men dressed as farmers on Putney Common. They seized a watch, three guineas, and silver, threatening violence if alarmed. In a separate incident Major Littlebales, riding in a port chaise near Mitcham and Croydon on the Beddington road, was robbed by three footpads who took an oath and a coat containing wearing apparel.
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Noah
Goodman's-fields
Waa
Putney Common
Littlebales
Mitchim
Croydon
Beddington Road
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Chacer
Sir Edward Hughes
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Prand
Yarmouth
Ange
St. Mary
Lagpibeth
John Oliver
Red Lion
G. Beever
Talburgh
T. Beever
North Cove
Wellingham
G. Gaskin
Trinity College
Stoke Newington
Middlesex
Hereford
Robert Pearce
Marden
William Jenkins
Gordon Castle
Duke of Gordon
Coke
Warhham
Fox
Norwich
Plough Inn
Whitby
Portsmouth
Plymouth
LAW Intelligence, Court OF King's Bench
the King W. Oldfield
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