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Newspaper
General Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Aug 28, 1773
Page
3
The Grand Signior’s handwritten appeal to the Grand Vizir exhorts subordination and discipline to revive Ottoman honor. Since, Ottoman troops have shown heroism, attacking Russian trench lines before Silistria five times and driving the enemy out with sabre in hand.
In Irelandd blin on August 24 a mob seized two figures in calico and nankeen, leading them through streets while the Lord Mayor and sheriffs issued orders. A riot followed at Comb Hill where the Mayor urged dispersal. The army fired on the crowd after rioters attacked soldiers. two or three people were killed and several wounded. Ringleaders were captured and jailed in Newgate.
In Bristol area on August 28 Emanuel Hansford and his 19 year old daughter were crushed when a quarry head gave way at Mr Clear's Stroud farm near Netherbury. In Chelmsford on August 27 two men and their horses drowned in floodwaters near Saffron Walden.
Shipping news from Dixx August 29 details wind, sailings, and outbound vessels including Molly and Betsey Laurie from Jamaica, Minerva Rillet to Calmouth, India Pilot Boyce Gravesenn from August 28, and arrivals at Plymouth Dover Barbadoes with ships such as Endeavour Susannah Adriatic Fox and others from Dublin Cork Virginia and Archangel with several from Norway Oporto and Stettin.
The report enumerates thefts, assaults, accidental drownings, and a fire at Rotherhithe with a boy perishing, plus a sharp rise in wheat prices at Marlborough and public disturbances near Montague House. It notes charitable frauds, a purse of stolen silver, and several marriages in London districts, all framed in a rapid, observational style.
From London to Aleppo and Barcelona the crowd reports lean on misfortune and policy. The late Far of Chesterfield’s ribbon is to pass to the Earl of Holderneffe. Plague ravages Bagdat as Christians and Jews flee to Basra and Damascus. Barcelona faces soldier and civilian quarrels over a May uprising. death threats for disobedience. A Jamaica express arrives with ships from Quebec. A prelate sells his vast library for lack of reading tafts.
Sunday notices report the deaths of John Williams a Hamburgh merchant at Hackney and John Quill timber merchant in Liverpool. Thomas Willing late merchant of this city died at Longford Middlesex. Thomas Roberts engineer died in Tower Street. Rev Ekins rector of Barton Seagrave Northamptonshire died Thursday last. Ambrose Jackson relict of Ambrose Jackson died at Queen Street Westminster. Mrs Devaynes widow of Devaynes died at Paddington.
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