15 Apr 1790
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Newspaper
General Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Apr 15, 1790
Page
1
Foreign dispatches describe peasant revolts in three counties and Turkish Bosnian conduct. Rome and Avignon tensions loom over papal and secular power. London society features a drawing-room at Buckingham Palace with nobility, ministries discuss tobacco bills, lotteries, and canal surveyors, plus crime, marriages, and deaths in the capital.
At Chelmsford quarter sessions Thomas Johnson pleaded not guilty to a riot indictment arising from a past battle between Levi and Lee with Johnson as a participant. Levi and Lee pleaded guilty and were sentenced to one month in the House of Correction with sureties for three months. The session also debated Lord Loughborough’s county fine and the authority behind it, with cautious notes on legality.
On April 14 wind conditions affected sailings from Gravesend and nearby ports. Vessels including the Paragon Clodd Ostend Rodney India and other ships such as Ebenezer Norway Changeable Maryland Lady Agneta Hamburgh Alert Petersburgh Charlotte Marseilles and Oldham Copenhagen departed or remained at port under orders or in ballast as crews adjusted for routes to Jamaica Cadiz Cork Ostend and Denmark.
Earcher informs nobility and gentry that his Ware Rooms in Henrietta Street Covent Garden offer black silks rotates and fabrics including bombazine, crape, bombazets, and white bomb greens. Prices are stated as the lowest money, with second mournings in black white and grey.
NUICIDE a Dissertation printed by M. Vint in Avemury lane sold by S. Hise in Oxford street 87.
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