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General Evening Post

Location

London, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Date

Aug 13, 1748

Page

2

Entertaining Visit and Local Notices from Kilkenny to Galway

arrival of PEs Flatts from England greeted by Lord Newport and Nathaniel Clements amid a grand parkside display. reports of deaths including Rev George Alcock and Col George Ormby. Kilkenny gang activity noted with Freney. York Street Charter School Nursery opened. robbers in Kilkenny vicinity captured. Ibe Lynch’s deathbed Protestant recantation. Galway private letter about recantations. ship arrivals and sailings listed from Smyrna to London.

Pes Flatts England Dunlary Lord Newport Nathaniel Clements Clements George Alcock Clonenagh Fernes Derry Col George Ormbby Butler Kilkenny Freney Charter School York Street Waterford Galway Ike Ibe Lynch

Night highway robbery near Yarmouth ends in arrest

A traveler, Mr Alfton, was robbed of a watch and money by a highwayman between Gorleston and Yarmouth. The robber, tall and about 35, named Lawrence Lee, was captured at dawn with his supposed wife, and sent to Yarmouth Gaol. Other notes report an attack in Bristol, smuggling arrest near Lydd, and locust sightings with hop crop damage from a recent wind.

Norwich Yarmouth Alfton Gorleston Alston Kilet Lawrence Lee Hull Yorkshire Bristol Elizabeth Alloughby Newgate White Lion Inn Virginia Canterbury Lydd Francis Riggs Fredry Dray John Polley Thomas Glover Betherden Lord Cobham London Dover Deal Margate, &c Chifttert Westminster Infirmary Francis James Brown Francis Otter Henry Norris John Manderman Catherine Davidson Tothill Fields Bridewell Justice Trent St. Martin In the Fields Vande Walt Booth Street Spital Fields Motteux Spital Square Philip Medley Knt West Green Surry Rupert Lincoln George Champion Lee Kent Joshua Wagstaffe Southwark Partingfeld, Esq Great Buffel-street Clark Justice Clark New Broad-street Thomas Butler John Webster County of Middlesex

Shipping News Briefs: August Listings and Passages

Gravesend reports no ships in the harbor on August 14. Vessels passing the Thames include the Prince Frederick, Matson from Norway. the Cons tant, Jackson, the Friend's Glory, Miller, the ry Hufton, and the Neptune Bratfon from Dantzick. Wind north, August 14.

Crab Wind N. E Gravesend Prince Frederick Matson Norway the Copstant Jackson Friend’s Glory Miller Hufton Neptune Bratfon Dantzick

London Intelligence and Notices Across the Thames

From Warsaw letters to London items show Princess Mary Christina of Saxony as a possible consort to the Duke of Savoy and a French match discussed. Reports detail naval actions, arrests, marriages, deaths, and local disturbances around London, Holland, Virginia, and New England, with ship captures, ordnance repairs, privateers, and commercial notices.

London Warsaw Mary Christina Saxony Duke of Savoy Madam Victore France Prince Henry Weeroon Amsterdam Paris A Lamain Mynheer Dablaing Sieur de Gieffenburg Heaneage Earl of Aylesford Deene Northampton Peterborough Eafton Stamford Rochester Robert Hillard Peter’s Westminster Tho. Grant Deceas George Spence Southwark Charles Lathbury John Christopher Waenelin Board of Ordnance Sandown Dover Landguard Cheffeldon Hull Admiralty Sir Edward Hawke Portsmouth Scott The Nore Hamilton Plymouth Woolwich Smith Coulter Virginia Whitehaven Johnson Bristol Phoenix Mason Carolina Mercury Hargrave Gibraltar Maryland His Majesty Norbury Havanna St. Augustin Worcester Indico, &c Hensley Royal Katherine Burges New-York Sandy Hook Martinico Oroonoko New England Fhames Lee Thames Mr. Holmes Marybon

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