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London Evening Post

Location

London, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Date

Sep 26, 1797

Page

2

Tie Sixth Edition Octave Corzxetep Critical Gpietuns

The Sixth Edition of the work is highly regarded with rising circulation. In London the Sixth Edition is offered to the public since 1791 and the work has been reprinted in Ireland America and translated on the Continent. Parliament and public prints cite the Anecdotes and speeches. gentlemen seeking full information will find particulars faithfully related.

Octave London Ireland America Farl

Anecdotes of the Life of the Late Earl of Chatham

A dated notice promotes three volume edition on Lord Chatham life for 1736 to 1778 with Speeches in Parliament. Urges critical opinions from Monthly Review Gazetteer Woodfall Diary Analytical Review English Review Annual Register and others praising the work for its authentic political anecdotes, public affairs insights, and documentary appendix.

Earl OF Chatham L. B. Seeley Monthly Review Lord Chatham Woodfall Times

A Gleaming Note on a New Book’s Value

A fragment from a Gentleman’s Magazine review lauds a forthcoming work on Sir William Temple. The piece argues the Anecdotes illuminate more than half a century of history and that the book’s importance will endure for posterity. The review notes the text’s rarity and broad approval despite many challenges.

Gantleman William Temple

Earthquakes devastate South America in months long tale

From Quito to Tacunga and Riobamba the uprisings survive floods and lava. Macas eruption sends waves of fire and lava across towns while mountains sink and towns vanish under debris. Destruction spreads, hunger and thirst worsen, churches topple, and relief is plagued by looting amid vast casualties. Nearby Biamba is buried, with all rocks scattered. Reports note vast ruin and uncertain dead. A separate Edinburgh dispatch covers Highland unrest and a Glasgow accident where three men die after a ladder collapse, with others nearly — and narrowly — escaping.

Tacunga Ambato Riobamba Chimbo Quito Macas Ygualaga Bamba Capalpi St. Andre’s Guaono Embyies Guanardo Mora Pelile Ndefonso Aseatila Cueru Yatapuy Mafdro America Anagnana Alduc Aloaf Machache

Windsor Forresters Rescue Two Prisoners Under Highland Mob

A small Windsor Forresters detachment of 18 men led by Captain Cobourg travellng from Blair to Weems to escort Cameron and Menzies to Perth jail. Highlanders mobilized by hundreds blocked roads, but Cobourg protected his prisoners and, after a tense pursuit toward Inver, ordered a line across the street and fired only in self defense as the coach sped away guarded by dragoons.

Windsor Forresters Cobourg Duke of Athal’s Blair Weems Taytridge Cameron Menzies Perth Grantuly Dunkeld Cobourgh Inver M‘glafhén

London dispatches and European war notes September 28

Report from London on dispatches to Sir Morton Eden in Vienna plus Swedish royal marriage, German recruiting bans, Italian imperial forces near 132000 men, Ligurian Mountains defense, Cis-Rhine Republic cockade, Rheinbach independence, Turkish frontier unrest, Rome arrests, Pope’s bodyguard, Dalmatia and Sfortia seizures, Buonaparte health, Barbadoes revolt rumor, Surinam squadron, Edinburgh Faculty motion against editor, Lady Farquhar’s death, and Scipio actions in Europe.

Germany Vienna Ligurian Cis-Rhinane Rheinbach Bingen Bonn Rome Dalmatia Sstria Turkey Brod Sclavoila Venice Goat Hope Buonaparte Alps Padua Barbadoes Guadaloupe John Morthland Walter Farquhar Manners Virginia Water Scipio Mani Europe West Eadies Gocang Seveligiendi Ditfetolir

Frigate Captain Replaced Amid Suspicions in France

Dispatches report the captain of the frigate carrying deputies being replaced over suspected intelligence links with the deputies or their agents. Corresponde nce with the South grows more alarming as French forces engage rebel bands near St Esprit and Valence. In the Council of Five Hundred debate on a foreign tobacco duty defends the levy, noting American conduct lately toward the Republic.

Rhofe Idor Carpentras St. Esprit Valence Fournal Des Hommes Libres Council of Five Hundred Republic

Prisoners Moved in Fortified Carriages Under Guard

Deputies arrived at eleven in the morning in iron-grated red boarded carriages that block daylight. General Dutertre, commanding 150 hussars, allowed them to dine outside their transport and ordered strict limits on contact. An adjutant was arrested for planning a night move to Gr leans. The prisoners complain of discomfort and health decline, Barthelemy among them, while Pichegru remains dignified as they depart for Orleans in the evening.

Biabamba Biambaba Tree Barthelemy Pichegru Orleans

Exiled Swiss exile notes revolt spread in Europe

In Lausanne on August 24 the motive for M Mallet du Pan’s expulsion from Bern is described as strange. He published Italy’s horrors and exposed Venice and Genoa revolutions, provoking a banishment by a government tied to those republics. Buonaparte praises Bern’s actions, while Swiss fear revolutionary forces threaten the country as Grifons seek alignment with the Cisalpine Republic amid Lombard plots.

M. Maltet du Pan Bern Canton Italy Venice Genoa Boaonaparte Caneton Effer M. Mallet du Pan Constance William Zell Switzerland Europe Rewbel Buonaparte Joose France Grifons

Sale of Pains Hill Villa to Robert Hibbert

Pains Hill, the villa of the late B. Hopkins, Esq., has been sold to Robert Hibbert, Esq. A Margate incident last week involved a coastal boat drift near shore as a carriage machine with two ladies aboard nearly capsized. Three gentlemen in a boat rescued them, rowing to safety as the tide rose.

Pains Hill B. Hopkins Robert Hibbert Margate

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