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Newspaper
Weekly Register
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Aug 21, 1799
Page
2
A devotional poem exhorts the assembled youth to seek God as father and guide through life. It promises divine provision in youth, endurance in old age, and comfort in death, all under the protection of the God of Truth. The refrain affirms that God remains their father and guide from youth through life.
A fragmented religious verse urges youths to remember their creator God and follow wisdom. It extols early prayers, abstaining from vice, revering Scripture, and spending mornings in praise, shaping righteous paths and tempering desires.
Foreign Mews reports from Taft and Paris papers detailing Italian war operations. It notes surrender developments, Museau's movements toward Nice, and French involvement in Switzerland. The piece critiques the French party in England and questions Allied strategy amid a grim military situation.
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A fragment notes Rome and Papal dominions placed under siege by French forces. The senate and tribunals suspended, arms wearing banned, and troops dispersing across Ancona Civita Vecchia and Fort Angelo. Jacobins and Patriots flee with authorities reporting over 200 arrests.
In a Dutch directory letter to the Legislative Assemblies Brune is proposed and confirmed as provisional chief of the Batavian army. The proclamation urges unity with France, vows defence against British expeditions, and pledges to resist internal and external enemies, signaling a fortified alliance between Batavia and France. The message also notes British coastal threats and calls for requisition powers and immediate volunteer mobilization.
The Porte grants Pafwan Oglou Romelia command to fight banditti. The firman calls him pillar of the throne and mirror of Mahometanism. Buonastarte is said to linger near Syria and Egypt. Plague fears loom over Alexandria and Constantinople as French pressures rise.
At a General Court the company unanimously resolved to present the thanks of the court to Lord Nelson for the great and important services to the nation and Europe. They praised the squadron under his command for destroying the fleet near the mouth of the Nile and agreed on suitable inscribed plates to be presented and accepted.
A letter from John Parker of Sommers Place praises a physician’s medicine for curing his wife’s twenty year nervous fever and urges publication to help others. The piece also recounts a dramatic pirate escape tale from Liverpool to Jamaica, detailing Spanish imprisonment, a bold boat boarding, and the capture of the prize ship.
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