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Newspaper
General Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Aug 17, 1773
Page
3
From Brome in Zell July 8 reports hailstones coffee cup sized and many points. Destruction vast with harvest ruined, fowls killed or wounded, cattle harmed, linens torn, and some fatalities among those caught unprepared. Rome notes Jesuits lose control of public schools. Pope bans their funding and Cardinal Qrfini inventories college effects.
Edinburgh August 14. Court of Session condemns Peter and James Dow former Excise officers for frauds against Chelsea hospital. They forged affidavits using dead pensioners to obtain payments. Dow brothers banished to America for life and 14 years. High Court of Justiciary convicts John Brown and James Wilson of murder at Blacklaw Carnworth Muir. to be hanged September 15 with bodies given to surgeons.
Portsmouth reports orders for four warships to be readied at once with crews working double tides. A French vessel near the harbor was set ablaze by lightning and burned while the crew escaped to shore. Newcastle notes the marriage of Thomas Muldrup, Denmark's consul at the port, to Hannah Palmer of Staffordshire.
A long list of ships arriving and sailing, including Prince of Wales East-Indiaman Swift Pilot and many others from St Vincent Barbadoes Antigua Jamaica Grenades Nevis and more. Vessels depart for New York Antigua Portsmouth France and Quebec with numerous captains and owners named.
Fragmentary OCR reads like a lodging or passenger list with scattered names and places including Lisbon Chester Venice London Jamaica and several surnames such as SNEEE TeesThomas Hargrave Jolliffe Carr Clarendon and Prince of Wales. The text is incomplete and reads as a damaged historical record.
In London yesterday the Earl of Northington was elected and invested in the Order of the Thistle at St James's replacing the late Earl of Warwick. The Marquis of Kildare met the King at court. A Dutch robberies tale ends with the Schout and bailiff killed. the hussar and widow survive. Weather and storm reports span Deal to the Irish Channel. Multiple drownings, accidents, and criminal cases illustrated a day of peril and court actions across London and environs.
Fragmentary notice reports John Hoffen, a stationer of Shoreditch, dying at Brompton following an event involving Mr. James Crump, a merchant. Details are unclear due to damaged OCR text.
A historical notice details a proposed scheme titled the Adelphi Lottery, footed on the Adams family property in the Adelphi area. It outlines principal prizes, subscription terms, payment schedules, and delivery of tickets with management by five commissioners, plus conditions to finish the buildings and settle ground rents and mortgages.
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