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Newspaper
Weekly Register
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Aug 15, 1798
Page
3
The piece argues that public conjectures cloud truth about Nelson Buonaparte clashes and notes America has struck a first defiant blow by capturing a French privateer. It previews vigorous coastal and interior efforts to repel a likely enemy in hopes of restoring peace amid pervasive fear and rumor.
Reports note Le Clerc proposing license penalties for Sunday shop closures and Daubeuil proposing universal adoption rights modeled on Rome. Boulay Paty urges fixed Navy and Colonies spending at 125,000,000 livres Tournois and calls for maritime revival. The Directory also orders Geneva’s organization as Department of ac Leman. Paris notices discuss naval discipline, promotions, and July 23 celebrations, with Italy and Holland updates on armaments and blockades.
A Alexandria letter describes Buonaparte preparing a 40,000 man force, split for Cyprus to Aleppo and the Euphrates, with a Suez embarkation route via Rosetta and Cairo. French naval transit at the Gulph, Nelson’s squadron delayed by winds, Kilmaine’s coast tour praised, and Petersburgh reports a bold Baltic strategy. The note also mentions canal projects in the Polish frontier region and a possible Noburyn Canal.
From Belgrade and the Hungarian Gazette comes a dire account of the June 27 assault on Widdin. Captain Pacha Osman Pacha and Mustapha Pacha led a failed effort to take the lower city, struck by a heavy grape shot with many dead. Parwin Oglou rallied defenders, causing greater chaos. the captains were killed or forced to withdraw. Mustafa Pacha escaped. The report laments the outcome and awaits consequences.
In a July 20 letter from Mylak Gen Brane to Chev Borghese, Minister Plenipotentiary of Sardinia to the Cisalpine Republic, he charges the Sardinian Government with breach of honor and good faith and declines to interfere until Sardinian troops are declared insufficient, urging preservation of territorial positions already taken.
The dispatch requests a minister to present demands to the French Republic. They include granting liberty to imprisoned insurgents, provisioning the Citadel of Turin for two months, returning seized stores, disbanding excess militia, and recalling Count de Sala. The Naples court notes French allies and dismissals of inquisitors, while denying English connections as the fleet enters the Mediterranean via Messina.
The governor published a notice dated July 22 warning that individuals plotting to distort public opinion and incite hostility against the French will be treated as disturbers of the public peace. He urges vigilance and punishment for those who provoke unrest.
A tribe of Arabs near Baffara called Mu habbis overrun districts dependent on Bagdat and seize ports including Songonfconk on the Euphrates. The raid disrupts trade from Baffora to Bagdat as navigation is blocked unless ransomed. The Pacha of Bagdat plans to send troops led by his Kiaya to confront the marauders.
A Calcutta dispatch notes the expectation that on the 7th instant the Governor-general would declare a settled agreement between the Company and the Nawab’s ministers. The accord aims at future benefit and protection for both states, with no doubt remaining.
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