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Newspaper
General Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Apr 24, 1790
Page
3
Report of the Guardian man of war wreck and the collapse of relief supplies for the new Bogging Bay settlement. All stores, provisions, cattle, and plants on board, with convicts aboard, are lost or critically delayed, threatening months of hardship and famine for Governor and settlers. Private stores also destroyed or damaged, leaving minimal relief.
The Right Hon. Governor General in Council appoints Charles Coates, Joseph York Kinlock, George Dandridge, John Becher to key colonial posts, replacing several officials. Chandernagore issues slave trade ban with rewards for information and slave release. captains barred from docking natives without an order. London court actions include a libel/criminal information against Joseph James for remarks about the Lord Mayor and a libel case against a morning paper print about the Duke of Athol and his family.
A junior amine in the Honourable Company's service reports coal beds in the Mahadeo and Sumefarai rivers near Gonafer Garrow hills. The oil extracted is touted for medicinal use and may lower import costs, with water carriage to the Presidency via Burrumpooter. Kebul tree may yield a Sago substitute, while gold grains are reportedly found in river beds. A vessel, the William and Ann sloop, foundered near Guernsey. crew rescued. A dramatic escape by three Lancashire ladies from Royton after a wind rally toppled chimneys. A forgery at Hammersley and Co. Pall Mall, and obituaries for the Rev Thomas Barrett and Mrs Doddridge.
Cambridge reports several church postings. Dr Bennet of Emanuel College is named Bishop of Cork. Rev Richard Riley of St Johns College takes the vicarage of Shepreth. Rev Adkin becomes Minister of St Andrews Norwich. Rev Newsam inducted at Whatton in the Vale. Rev George Gray to Burgh with Winthorpe seats. Rev John Davenport of Goadby presented to Radcliffe-upon-Trent vicarage.
The Queen and Princesses Royal Augusta and Elizabeth arrived at Buckingham House with the Countess of Courtoun. The King hunted at Windsor, dined in town, and hosted a grand supper ball for Princess Mary's birth. The Prince of Wales held a levee at Carleton House with numerous dukes, archbishops, counts, and generals in attendance.
On Thursday morning the 18th instant Miss Jane Elwell eldest daughter of Mr Elwell of West Bromwich died after a lingering illness She was praised as elegant amiable pious and graceful The obituary notes her faith virtue and native dignity and laments her loss with lines on sorrow and bereavement AMICUS
A somber notice list records several deaths and memorials across locations including Leadenhall Street Brighton Pisa Calcutta Redlands Bristol Slough and Kensington. Among the departed are Petey White Esqr and Robert Davis an elderly Brighton resident, with other names tied to families estate and trades such as a goldsmith and jeweller Abraham Aide and James Theobald Esquire.
Mr Warrenpars, instructed by Mr Berdmore, offers all dental operations and fitment of natural and artificial teeth from single to full sets without pain. He advertises an Abstergent Lotion for gum scurvy and Dentiftice for cleaning teeth. Available at his house Dover Street Piccadilly.
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