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Newspaper
Weekly Register
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Dec 05, 1798
Page
4
Fragmentary text cites PLERELLY as Presidentt of the Consulate and BASSAL as Secretary in a seized report urging zeal for the Republic and warning Rome and Naples of tyranny’s chastisement. The passage appears from a historical document with corrupted OCR shows. The context implies a political or revolutionary proclamation.
Spain imposes a colonial produce ban on prizes taken by English ships, forbidding cocoa, sugar, indigo and similar goods from entering any port. Merchants resold via Gibraltar and Lisbon, with privateers aided by English and Portuguese traders. An order also bars English merchandise moving between ports as fleets prepare for action.
Hague Nov 6 reports say in recent days the ds have doubled everywhere and similar measures are in force to curb unrest. The Directory orders strict enforcement against emigrants and French banished criminals and calls for arrest of Brabanters involved in the insurrection for immediate surrender to the Government.
The article describes a violent flare up in Maryborough and surrounding areas with a four-man gang attacking neighbors, a fatal exchange of gunfire, plunder found in a rock den, and a Clare militia barracks explosion that killed several and wounded many. It notes civil and military power friction, and a rape case involving Limerick militia soldiers, with intervention from high authorities.
Prisoners brought up, and their being produced in custody, the Court ordered execution to be done on them on Wednesday fortnight.
Dublin harbour endures a ferocious southeast gale for three days, wrecking two merchantmen off Pholbeg and Clontarf while a Welch sloop founders near the Liffey. The Kangaroo sloop of war drifts up the river, the Margaret tender is lost with 25 crew, and nine men and a woman wash ashore before burial. Portsea and Harwich reports note quarantine and a Dutch vessel wreck off Felixstowe cliffs with many perishations.
A lengthy necrology lists numerous decedents and notables across England and abroad, naming ages, places, occupations, and notable life events. Entries include W Hyde at Hopton Waters aged 99, John Zephania Hotwell Governor of Bengal, J Rawlinson MD, Rev J Jeffreys D D, Sir Richard Reynell, Capt Byard of the Foudroyant, George Hant MP, James Dunn LL D, Gilbert of Warwickshire who circumnavigated, and others in Ireland, Scotland, and New York. Each obituary notes age, residence, former roles, and circumstances of death or last achievements.
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