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Chronological List Of The Most Remarkable Occurrences In The Year 1797.
naticia ! plan , proposing an alarming increase ofthe assessed taxes , and a loan of i 2 , ooo , oool . for the service ofthe ensuing year . 25 . An account received at the Admiralty of several privateers and other vessels belonging to the enemy having been taken arid destroyed by his Majesty's cruizers on the Jamaica station . —The Hope armed lugger run down by a large merchantman in the Downs , and eleven other men drowned . ¦ 26 . The Hamburgh Mail brought intelligence ofthe Emperor of Russia
having undertaken to guarantee the integrity of the German empire . —A dispatch from the Cape of Good Hope announced , that settlement was in great want of provisions , occasioned by the disaffection ofthe farmers . . 28 . Two French privateers brought into Cork by the Cerberus frigate . 29 . The Paris papers announced , that Buonaparte had accepted the command ofthe army intended to invade this country . —A French privateer captured by the Latona frigate , off the coast of Portugal . 30 . Intelligence received of the Emperor having ratified the treaty of peace with France .
DECEMBER . 1 . The Eatavian Convention resolved to repair the recent naval losses of that country by a general levy upon the inhabitants of the United States . — A violent storm in Newfoundland , in which three ships were lost . 2 . Several bodies of French troops marched from Flanders , to join the army upon the coasts , destined to invade this country . —A new gold coinage of seven shilling ieces issuedand ordered to be received as the current coin of
p , the kingdom . —General Sir Ral p h Abercromby arrived at Dublin , to take upon him the command of the army in that kingdom , in the room of Lord Carhampton . —Several parishes in the county of Cork declared in a state of insurrection . 3 . A French corvette taken by the Latona frigate , off the coast of Portugal . —Accounts received at the Admiralty ofthe capture of two French privateersbhis Majesty's shipCerberusoff the coast of Ireland ; and of two others
, y , by the Boadicea and Penelope . —The British Court went into mourning for the late King of Prussia . 4 . Captain Williamson , of his Majesty ' s ship Agincourt , was brought to trial by Captain Hopper , of the Marines , on a charge of not having done his duty in the action of the nth of October , with the Dutch fleet . The Court-Martial sat on board the Circe frigate , at Sheerness . Several resolutions passed the House of Commons , approbatory of the Minister ' s Financial Scheme
of increasing the Assessed Taxes . 5 . It was announced at the Admiralty , that his Majesty ' s ship Aurora had . captured , in the Mediterranean , a French privateer , and several Spanish merchantmen . —A French privateer taken by the Dianna frigate off the Irish coast . 6 . Government received advice ofthe Queen of Portugal havingdetermined to ratify the treaty of peace with the French Republic ; and that , as a pledge
of her sincerity , she had sent off to Paris a quantity of diamonds , to the value of near 400 , 0001 . sterling . —Mr . Fox presented to the King , at the Levee , a petition from near five thousand freeholders of the county of Down , in Ireland , complaining of the hardships which that country at present labours under , and praying for redress of grievances . 7 . Count de Pombeiro , the Portuguese Ambassador Extraordinary , -who came to England on an important embassy , relative to the affairs of Portugal and Spain , set out on his return to Lisbon , in consequence of the determination of her Most Faithful Majesty to ratify the treaty of peace with France . S . Mrs . Phipoe sentenced to suffer death , for the murder of Mary Cox . ~
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Chronological List Of The Most Remarkable Occurrences In The Year 1797.
naticia ! plan , proposing an alarming increase ofthe assessed taxes , and a loan of i 2 , ooo , oool . for the service ofthe ensuing year . 25 . An account received at the Admiralty of several privateers and other vessels belonging to the enemy having been taken arid destroyed by his Majesty's cruizers on the Jamaica station . —The Hope armed lugger run down by a large merchantman in the Downs , and eleven other men drowned . ¦ 26 . The Hamburgh Mail brought intelligence ofthe Emperor of Russia
having undertaken to guarantee the integrity of the German empire . —A dispatch from the Cape of Good Hope announced , that settlement was in great want of provisions , occasioned by the disaffection ofthe farmers . . 28 . Two French privateers brought into Cork by the Cerberus frigate . 29 . The Paris papers announced , that Buonaparte had accepted the command ofthe army intended to invade this country . —A French privateer captured by the Latona frigate , off the coast of Portugal . 30 . Intelligence received of the Emperor having ratified the treaty of peace with France .
DECEMBER . 1 . The Eatavian Convention resolved to repair the recent naval losses of that country by a general levy upon the inhabitants of the United States . — A violent storm in Newfoundland , in which three ships were lost . 2 . Several bodies of French troops marched from Flanders , to join the army upon the coasts , destined to invade this country . —A new gold coinage of seven shilling ieces issuedand ordered to be received as the current coin of
p , the kingdom . —General Sir Ral p h Abercromby arrived at Dublin , to take upon him the command of the army in that kingdom , in the room of Lord Carhampton . —Several parishes in the county of Cork declared in a state of insurrection . 3 . A French corvette taken by the Latona frigate , off the coast of Portugal . —Accounts received at the Admiralty ofthe capture of two French privateersbhis Majesty's shipCerberusoff the coast of Ireland ; and of two others
, y , by the Boadicea and Penelope . —The British Court went into mourning for the late King of Prussia . 4 . Captain Williamson , of his Majesty ' s ship Agincourt , was brought to trial by Captain Hopper , of the Marines , on a charge of not having done his duty in the action of the nth of October , with the Dutch fleet . The Court-Martial sat on board the Circe frigate , at Sheerness . Several resolutions passed the House of Commons , approbatory of the Minister ' s Financial Scheme
of increasing the Assessed Taxes . 5 . It was announced at the Admiralty , that his Majesty ' s ship Aurora had . captured , in the Mediterranean , a French privateer , and several Spanish merchantmen . —A French privateer taken by the Dianna frigate off the Irish coast . 6 . Government received advice ofthe Queen of Portugal havingdetermined to ratify the treaty of peace with the French Republic ; and that , as a pledge
of her sincerity , she had sent off to Paris a quantity of diamonds , to the value of near 400 , 0001 . sterling . —Mr . Fox presented to the King , at the Levee , a petition from near five thousand freeholders of the county of Down , in Ireland , complaining of the hardships which that country at present labours under , and praying for redress of grievances . 7 . Count de Pombeiro , the Portuguese Ambassador Extraordinary , -who came to England on an important embassy , relative to the affairs of Portugal and Spain , set out on his return to Lisbon , in consequence of the determination of her Most Faithful Majesty to ratify the treaty of peace with France . S . Mrs . Phipoe sentenced to suffer death , for the murder of Mary Cox . ~