Evening Post in London, Middlesex

Woman Drowns Infant on York Stairs in York Buildings

A distressed woman, left with two children at home, carries a baby in arms to York Stairs. She plunges into the river as a boatman and another man intervene. The baby drowns. the mother is rescued and placed under care. Separately, merchants report the Sloper Galley carrying enslaved Africans was driven ashore to windward. 8 million pieces of eight and gold aboard. The South Sea Company holds a general court at Mercer Taylor’s Hall about a midyear dividend and stock annuities.