04 Aug 1741
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Newspaper
Daily Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Aug 04, 1741
Page
1
Paris issues an ordinance enforcing discipline for campaigns and encampments, forbidding fires and looting, detailing penalties up to death, and mandating officers to stay in tents and reimburse owners. A second ordinance governs table service and officer quarters, urging restraint and care in host houses while warning generals to report intrusions.
IRELAWN D Dublin July 28 Thursday last died in a very advanced age the Right Rev Dr Edward Synge Lord Archbishop of Tuam Primate and Metropolitan of Connaught and one of His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council He was consecrated Bishop of Raphoe Nov 17 1714 and translated to the Archbishoprick of Tuam May 16 1716 His Grace was a Gentleman of true piety an excellent scholar and a great divine very hospitable extremely charitable a true lover of his country and his death is greatly lamented
The Devon county office ended with Samuel Cately Robert Yelland James Crocker John Nott Thomas Nott Thomas Dodd Roger Bugh Samuel Hutchings and Libel Mills sentenced to death. The judges reprieved seven. eight others ordered for transportation four whipped and six branded. Meanwhile Southall Evans, who sailed from here for Philadelphia, was taken by Spaniards and carried to St Sebastian's.
Port News reports ships arriving and sailing from Falmouth Plymouth Dover Deal and other ports with vessels including Endeavour King Eliza and Sarah Corn for Milford Happy Grove Malt for Bristol Two Sitters for Liverpool John and Betty for Newcastle and London ships Loyal Jane Leopard Britannia and others arriving from Barbadoes New York Jamaica and Norway with wind from NE and multiple outwards and inward-bound vessels noted
Boston reports from Rhode Island state that during the trial of the prize sloop last week, evidence appeared in at least twenty letters detailing the case.
From the Paris Alamain extra of a letter dated Genoa July 26 nine seafants of Nebbio were committed to the Piifans of Baftia. The fragment notes actions by the Nebbio province and mentions the transfer to Baftia authorities in a Genoa correspondence.
Reports describe Corsica’s resistance to Genoese rule, Tunisian seizures of Tabarca, and fleet movements to France as Corsican exiles plot return. A privateer hunt around Calais and Dunkirk follows Spanish prizes and British coastal actions, with captured vessels and menacing threats noted aboard the open launch privateer. A UK obituary and a violent infant death are also reported amid a cricket match rumor and local wagers at Walworth Common.
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