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Newspaper
Weekly Register
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Feb 20, 1799
Page
3
The excerpt notes momentary hopes for Congress dissolution. French residents have orders to return home and the French Theatre manager must quit the town. Tensions between the plenipotentiaries and the Emperor suggest a renewed war risk.
A contemporary English report details the flight of the King of Naples and his queen from Naples aboard the Vanguard and Alcmene, with 2000 troops landed at Leghorn. On the voyage a prince died, the royal family confessed, and defection among Neapolitan officers grew as the fleet neared Palermo. The scene near the shore drew immense public interest as the monarchs disembarked and preparations to return to England began. A Florence dispatch reports the King of Sardinia visiting Tuscany, escorted by French dragoons and meeting the Grand Duke’s chamberlain, noting the Pope’s health limits travel.
A fragment from a dramatic proclamation by Buonaparte describing French army progress in the Near East. The text invokes divine authority, pledges protection to friendly cities, and urges local openness to French occupation across Cairo, Cyprus, Jerusalem, and related sites. The language promises peace and restraint toward slaves and freemen while asserting overwhelming military power.
Diblin reports a tempest wrecking several ships off the bay with many lives lost and crew rescued, while Alderman Hugh Trevor is elected. In Parliament, Sun libels are condemned and burned in Dublin with the Speaker John Foster and Mr. O Donnel prominent in proceedings.
The crowd filled windows and roofs as papers burned amid loud cheers and hat waving, with no accidents. The House of Commons debated Galway turmoil and riots where cattle were hounded, sparking wider rebellion fears as magistrates proclaimed Galway. Arm am arm body found near Baltinglass after strangling and robbery. A Pike residence siege near Coldblow Lane saw a defender shot. others captured, foreshadowing more arrests to curb gang violence near the metropolis.
A poem implores Spring to melt the cold season with warm beams and green meadows. It asks for mild air and fragrant odors, fertilizing showers, fields decorated with herbs, brimming with life as lambs leap and birds sing, while the plowman seeks favor. The verse ends with time moving swiftly on wings of bees.
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