04 Apr 1776
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Newspaper
General Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Apr 04, 1776
Page
1
Friday reports from foreign affairs note Branicky, Grand General of the Crown of Poland, arrived with Count Potocky. Public interest centers on possible arrival of Count Poniatowski. In Frenning, Major General Count de Wallis is named Counsellor of State and heads to Bohemia to investigate late disturbances. A large sum of 700,000 Youbles said sent to Poland.
In Kilkenny on March 27 Michael Buler and Edmund Butler two White Boys were tried and found guilty. Buler burned the office of John Grant at Kilmogue while Butler cut off Patrick Pigott’s ear and flitted the other. They were sentenced to be executed on the 30th instant. Sunday night at Ballintemple William Paul Butler seized firearms hidden by White Boys in the mountains near Borris. He recovered guns swords and pistols, seven feet eight inch long firearms among them. Waterford reports a foundered pedlar murdered and robbed, with head severed from body.
In Leeds York offices Sir Henry Gould presided in a suit where widow Mary Sanderson sued a merchant for nonperformance of a marriage promise. The jury found for the plaintiff with social damages. The plaintiff is 50 years old and the defendant around sixty.
The 18th century style lists arrivals and departures with vessels such as the Nepuise Butkeil and Berowe Adamant sailing for America and Galway. Other ships pass by the Ether Harri from Sevie and London Packet from Winter near Guernsey. Several craft including St Andrew from Bristol, Britannia Yacht from London, and Dispatch from Cadiz reach the port, with multiple names and origins noted in a dense harbor record.
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