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Newspaper
General Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Aug 12, 1790
Page
1
Weather drew a large crowd to Lansdown fair where cheese sold quickly despite high prices. New cheese 36s, old 44s per cwt. Horses sold midlingly, fat bears at 40s per hundred, lean cattle dearer, fat sheep 3s a stone. In Lockerly Hants a boy named Newell died after an adder bite in Lockerly woods.
Neal and Polly sail early this morning aboard the Nemesis frigate bound outward as before with St Abe's Commerce Palmer for Bourdeaux and Limerick, while Kerr remains with Adventure Pomona Wasps Unity Dili gence St James's planter Paxton for Jamaica. Gravesend reports Nancy Krian Diligent Pinfon Rebecca Blackburn Pitt Manning Princess Royal Joseph and Hannah Emblington Polly Harris Thomas and Alice Gill Thames Fletcher Thames Deanham Duke of Richmond Falconer from various ports.
London observers marked the Prince of Wales birthday with a grand drawing room at St James's and extensive royal processions. The King, Queen, Prince of Wales, and numerous nobles, ambassadors, and officers attended, while fireworks at Ranelagh, illumination at Vauxhall, and theater tributes highlighted public loyalty across the metropolis. The day included hospitalities at Carleton House and Bedford House with other society readings, dinners, and congratulatory toasts, reflecting broad public esteem for the heir.
An heir at law of the late James Hentzer son, formerly a Bath post office clerk and brewer, announces intent to apply at Whithin Caste street Holborn for satisfaction of his rightful share. Information on the heir or relatives should be sent to 2 a Floor.
Small genteel family house in Dr onfield Derbyshire offers four rooms on ground floor with pantries cellar and conveniences plus a ward barn stable garden and orchard. Rent eight guineas per annum. Dronfield noted for healthy air and good water with coal at 3s 6d per chaldron. Further details from J Taylor at the Academy, Dronfield.
KINGs LYNN July 27 1799 Notice to general annual meeting of commissioners named in the Act for improving and preserving navigation from Saltergate to Ramsey High Load and related works. Meeting to be at White Hart Inn March Ely on Thursday August 18 at eleven o clock in the forenoon. Henry Bell
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