03 Aug 1773
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Newspaper
General Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Aug 03, 1773
Page
1
A brief fragment from the London Gazette dated Wednesday August 4 presents an official notice format. The readable text is limited to the date and publication line with no further substantive details available for summarization.
In Berlin on July 24 the Princess of Orange returns from Potsdam and travels to Schoenhauser to stay until July 27 when she heads to Rhiniberg then Lob. Weather favorable for early harvest with grains promising a plentiful crop. The King appoints Blair Whitiare Kenrick Bindley and Baillie as stamp duties commissioners and Brettell as secretary to the commission.
A courier from Jaffy to Gen. Bibicoff details Russian forces crossing the Danube and advancing on Silestria and Si jest ria. Generals Stupuchin Suwalow Potemkin lead divisions repelling Turkish resistance with heavy casualties and captured artillery. Russian strength nears 90,000 with Romanzow expected to join siege efforts as reports claim the Grand Vizir recalled. Bologna notes Spanish Jesuits arrested by court order in Rome and held in archiepiscopal prisons, with a third Jesuit detained amid unclear charges.
Arrivals at Dover and other ports include Generous Friends from Lisbon Beulah from Jamaica and Diana Miller from London Mary and Elizabeth Parmiter Polly and Nancy Sampson from Poole Hull Briton from Petersburgh Royal Charlotte from London Newfound Land Olive Branch Hockey from New York and Warbourn Olive from the Straits and more ships entering and departing.
London notices report the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester plan a Windsor departure for Canons in Hampshire on the 14th. The piece covers coin act debates, Sweden’s growing army, naval movements, Richmond bridge plans, a literary property trial in Edinburgh, court and legal notices, marriages, deaths, and local robberies and accidents.
The creditors and representatives of the deceased creditors of Thomas Beet and John Dawson late of London warehousemen bankrupt are directed to meet the assignee of the said bankrupt on the first day of September next at four o clock in the afternoon at Ratten's Coffee House Cornhill on special affairs pursuant to an order of the Court of Chancery made on the 3d day of July 1766. Elizabeth Beet wife of the said Thomas Beet is plaintiff and the said Thomas Beet and others are defendants.
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