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Newspaper
General Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Apr 05, 1774
Page
3
The ministry has been busy with Goa affairs issuing regulations and preparing to send a Governor or Captain-General. The plan includes appointing civil and military officers, an Archbishop, magistrates, and a sizable troop presence to oversee Goa.
Boston February 17 Wentworth reports that complaints against his government were urged by Peter Livius and approved by the Privy Council. The House congratulates him on his administration and hopes for continued contentment for the province. In New York Kaya shota the Ohio chief travels with Sir William Johnson to urge change among distant tribes. Canada’s inhabitants petition England for a legislative assembly in that province.
Bristol April 2 William Brown a journeyman woolcomber at Wells cut his throat and died soon after. The previous night he had been forbidden by the young woman’s father from visiting the house. He then enlisted with a regiment serjeant and later used a penknife left on the table to kill himself. The young woman is distraught and his parents bereaved.
Arrivals and movements list ships and captains including Diligence from Chester, Alarm man of wars, London Robertson to Virginia, Houghton Godshall to Oporto, Nicolls to Maryland, Arnold Water man to Virginia, and vessels from Jamaica South Carolina Barbados and Barcelona continuing trade and passage along the river ports.
Serjeant Burland yesterday kissed the King’s hand at St James’s to be named Baron of the Exchequer in place of the late Baron Adams. The Paris Gazette lauds the new Turkish Sultan, but reports say the Divan and Ministry did not approve. A Ty good authority contradicts this, noting the Divan’s view of the ruler as ignorant and despotic.
An aggregation of dispatches describes a high treason accusation against the Chief Caimican Reis Effendi and the Grand Tefadar, amid court intrigue and a factional struggle, with the Grand Vizir’s wife and other enemies closing in. Concurrently, a New York letter reports on Bennington riot outrages and political pressure in Charlotte and Albany, while London notices recount thefts, fires, trials, and local misdeeds, including a Bath village fire ruin and police court actions.
A previously unpublished letter from the late Reverend Mrs Sterne Loy expresses gratitude for a kind epistle. She reflects on friendship, sentiment, and the difficulties of timely reply, noting that business often distances true feeling and questioning the role of sentiment in friendship.
Printed for G. Robinson at Paternoster Row this day for the Saint James Magazine or Memoirs of Our Own Times. Contents include letters from a Noble Politician and Moore to the late Lord Chancellor Macclefield, travels of a dilettante friar, remarks on Mrs Macaulay's Modest Plea, adventures of the Hayam of Isfahan, disputes between Eugénia Stinhop and Mrs Starhope, and notes on Italian French operas and Shakespeare. Published by G Bigg and E C the Strand.
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