Fant 23 Circulan Letter On US Vessels Duty
Philadelphia dispatch reproduces a December 29 1798 Navy Department circular commanding US armed vessels to resist searches and detentions by British forces. It cites President Adams praise for civility toward British officers elsewhere and recounts later accounts from Havannah of Capt Loring’s actions detaining American crew from the Baltimore. Included is a report of naval costs and a distress note from Wilmington about locust plagues near Cape Bonavista and Madeira voyage.
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United States
Navy Department
Benjamin Stoddart
Congress
Havannah
Nova Scotia
West India Islands
Loring
Baltimore
Phillips
Cochet
Dobson
Queen
Donnelly
Maidstone
Hardy
Norfolk
Butler
Eliza
Baas
Friendship
Te Moro
Brénn
Cape P
Carnatic
Wilmington
Ann
Wilson
Madeira
Cape Bonavista
Cape
Forces Around Calcutta Threaten Northern Frontier
Dispatch from Calcutta describes Tippoo’s encampment near Lathore with eighty thousand men and Abdallies under Zemaun Shah amassing 106,000, plus 30,000 at Bareilly. Almas Ali Khan holds grain depots across Oude and Balk entrenched near Rampore, while Nauwab of Moorshedabad’s uncle faces restrictions in Dacca. The Mahrattas muster 100,000 at Paunnight, with 60,000 irregulars and 20,000 trained infantry under De Boigne, as Seiks prepare to join. The Nizam’s twenty regiments defend with heavy artillery and mixed officers. Raymond the Frenchman still commands troops on Decan flank.
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Calcutta
Tippoo
Bareilly
Rampore
Lucknow
Nauwab
Moorshedabad
Bengal
Dacca
Zeemaun Shah
Perhampore
Paunnight
de Boigne
Sutherland
Republic of the Seiks
Magoo
Nizam
Raymond
British Frontiers and Afghan Threats Cited in Dispatch
The text asserts British distrust of non British officers, warns of possible Afghan and Candahar incursions, and notes Goa reports of a Boncela attempt to seize Terracoll fortress. Sixty six assailants bribed a garrison sentry, entered Terracoll at night, but were quickly repelled and killed.
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Candahar
Saydat Ali
Goa
Boncela
Terracoi
Pilardi Arrests Victor Hugues Ally in St Bartholomew
At St Bartholomew on December 30 Gen Pilardi and Gen Desfourneaux landed before the frigates, seized Victor Hugues’s authorities, and transferred him under guard aboard a frigate. Pilardi seized Desfourneaux’s papers, shocking Hugues as the captain recalled his father’s execution at Rochefort.
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Grenadiers
Rochfort
Desfour- Heaux
Ireland House of Commons Education Bill and Tax Proposals
In Parliament on Monday February 25 Mr Edgeworth outlined a plan for education of the lower classes proposing two or more schools per parish with licensed schoolmasters after moral and qualification checks. The Chancellor of the Exchequer summarized military and civil expenditures for the year and proposed taxes including duties on tea sugar hops salt tobacco malt window tax and other levies to fund the establishment. The Speaker expressed belief Catholic emancipation would come soon in the Commons via his son.
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House of Commons
Edgeworth
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America
Philadelphia
Fant
Lewis Trelevant
William Timmons
G. G. Morton
St. At Havannah
East Indies
West Indies
Ireland
Treasury
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