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Newspaper
General Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Apr 07, 1774
Page
3
A late 18th century European roundup details drought in Tunis with springs failing and corn export bans, plus dispatches from Stockholm, Hamburg, Copenhagen, and Utrecht. Reports cover envoys, military movements in Poland, Prussia, Russia, and Austria, and preparations for ensuing campaigns. Local items note drownings and thefts, plus marriages and deaths in England.
In Canterbury April 6 a group of about ten smugglers attacked Officers Eliot and Slodden near Selling while returning from Ashford. Slodden was knocked from his horse and struck, horses were driven off, saddles and bridles stolen, one bale of muslin and a bag of tea seized but later recovered by smugglers. one smugglers’ horse injured.
A dated maritime notice records ships arriving at Dover Poole Portsmouth Bristol Africa Montferrat and St Kitts with crews from Leghorn Cork London and Jamaica among others. Vessels include Wolf Watts Mary Lewis Joannes and Mercury with routes from Smyrna Rotterdam Cadiz and Trepany and calls at Leghorn Liverpool and New York.
Lieutenant General Gage prepared to embark for Portsmouth on a ship of the line to govern Massachusetts Bay. A royal dispatch from Sir Peter Denis was said to report the Toulon fleet’s failure. Charles Goring, Esq. was presented at St James's prior to his departure for India and graciously received.
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