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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Oct 24, 1797
Page
3
Fragmentary OCR notes recount a group of negotiators including Bianaparte and Maffena returning to Patierno after meetings. Other three negotiators were to dine there that day. The text hints at secret conferences and a tense stillness among those involved.
Madrid reports a hopeful tone that the Queen of Portugal will ratify the peace treaty with France. The Directory is said to have urged her with warnings of dangers in refusing, noting such firmness rare in negotiation history.
Berlin reports a Paris revolution and a planned Rhine left bank republic. Duke of Brunswick heads to Westphalia as Prussia warns of possible distant alliance. Frankfurt students flee to villages. 183 depart. Prussian army expansion to begin October, adding companies to each third fusilier battalion.
An extended item notes Lisbon mail arrivals and dispatches, exchange rates, and political alignments. It covers Papal and Venetian shifts, Russian service limits, and tensions with France, plus British naval strength near Cadiz, prize money, and references to Fleet actions, mutinies, and Liverpool shipping damage.
A list of passengers, officers, and their families departing from Madras on March 29 aboard the Princess and several other ships. Notables include Lieut Col. and Mrs. Waighite, Dr. Gahagan, Capt. Baily, Mrs. Gardner, Major General Count de Maeron, Miss Lockhart Mills Bruce, and many others with children.
The account recounts Admiral Duncan triumph and Dutch reactions led by Admiral De Winter. It notes De Winter blaming ministers, claims about the line breach, the near destruction of the Hercules, and救 efforts to save the Dutch crew. It also mentions Onslow’s arrival and exchanges with Dutch Admirals and a caution on flag striking.
Dispatches discuss the absence of a Lord High Admiral since George Prince of Denmark and the historical use of flags at sea. Wiltshire militia men in Exeter donate one day’s pay for widows and orphans after a victory, while officers match the subscrip tion. A Baltic shipping prize, a yellow fever death in the West Indies, and a Somersetshire river drowning with four bodies recovered are reported with vague local details.
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