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Newspaper
General Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Aug 31, 1776
Page
3
Reported arrival of Lieutenant-General Don de Cevallos from St Ildefonse with word he will be declared Vice roy of Buenos Ayres and gain three provinces from Peru. Troop departure delayed. 12,000 men to sail from Cadiz by end October. Also notes whale fishery success near Sockholm and grain export permission Braffats.
A Dublin report cites orders to bolster the realm against possible Spanish incursions. In Galway, a father and son were jailed on suspicion of a Christmas murder after a body found in a watercourse was identified as O'Brien a traveling dealer who lodged at the prisoners’ home. Two more suspects were imprisoned. Belfast reports a Larne arrival from Antigua and a sighting of a British transport convoy with a French frigate nearby. a London ship seized by a privateer is noted. A separate American dispatch claims privateers defeated transports, with General Howe’s forces suffering but five transports, 21 officers, 676 private men captured along with shoes.
On Monday the Blenheim transport arrived at Harwich harbour to embark a number of German recruits quartered at Landguard and the town, signaling fresh troop movements in the region.
Advice from Corke reports the Isabella and Dorothy Barclay from Quebec arrived with government dispatches. An express from Plymouth reached the Admiralty yesterday morning and was sent to Lord Sandwich at Sunbury, who then traveled to town where a board of Accuralty was convened.
News items describe Lord Howe joining his brother General Howe at Statensland and Congress appointing a day of fasting and prayer. Reports from Bristol and Newport note privateer actions against St James from Jamaica, with forced wreck and cargo seizures. Also included are European diplomatic moves from Madrid and Lisbon, fleet movements toward America, and various births marriages and deaths in Britain.
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