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Newspaper
General Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Apr 07, 1748
Page
3
This notice advertises a folio volume titled Heads of the most eminent Persons engaged in the Civil War with prints of battles. Also offered are octavo sets Necessary for all Families The Whole Duty of Man. It urges purchase for households and readers of history and religion.
A fragmentary program note mentions das Maccabeus 223r Occdional Oratorio Hercules Romelo i e rertures, indicating a concert sequence of historical and dramatic works. No complete context or performances are specified.
London reports reveal Duke of Cumberland joining English and Hanoverian troops near Hamont and Meuse to maintain river communications with Imperial forces at Ruremonde. Maestricht is described as surrounded by 150000 French troops with 150 battering cannons, as Saxe claims to have completed circumvallation and aims to take the town by the 16th.
Extract from a dispatch describing visitors at Aix la Chapelle amid entertainments of congress, warnings against peace rumors, arrivals and prizes of privateers, ship movements including Chesterfield and Snow, the appointment of Samuel Henry Pont as Chief Justice of the Isle of Ely, a fire at the Rose and Crown, an assault in Westminster, Beaufort’s ill health, large silver and gold shipments, deaths and oddities at Oxford, and a wind and market updates from Deal with stock and bond mentions.
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