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General Evening Post

Location

London, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Date

Dec 28, 1771

Page

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Fires in Constantinople and Moscow updates

From the London Gazette a fire in Constantinople on November 6 destroyed near a hundred houses including residences of the Reis Effendi and other porte officers. A second midnight blaze in a gale burned for ten hours, consuming many more houses over about half a mile. Moscow reports a drop in disease with daily deaths under 73 as winter cold sets in and Count Orloff reportedly returns. Prince Volkonski is appointed Governor of Moscow. In London, Hugh Palliser and others are named principal Officers and Commissioners of the Navy.

Reis Effendi Mecktugbi Porte Peter Dee Moscow Orloff Prince Volkonski Hugh Palliser John Wiliams Edmund Mason Timothy Brett Thomas Hanway William Bateman Richard Temple Frederick Rogers Richard Hughes Charles Proby

Ship News Wraps Dec 27 Arrivals and Departures Worldwide

Wind shifts as ships reposition with Ear of Lincoln East- Indiaman bound for India and Witham for Jamaica. Several vessels pass Gravesend and arrive at Cowes Tortuosa Forts and ports including Riga Gottenburgh London Jamaica Alicant Rouen Honfleur Waterford Cork Ostend Rotterdam and Tobago.

S.W Ispe Robinson Philadelphia Ear of Lincoln India Witham Dyer Jamaica Nathaniel Hunter Liverpool Gravesend Norman Benton Riga George Collings Dunn Piily Pinchet Hamburgh Chance Newfoundland St. Lucar Nancy Brown London Jeune Adelaide Delamer Alicant Rouen Amiable Society Hebert Honfleur Dispatch Marshall New England St. Kitt’s Aurora Sims Fom WestEratt Waterford Wrightingale Cox Ditto Cork Bre Dibbs

London Notice of French Ambassador Arrival and Irish Bill Debate

London reports that Count de Guignes is to be hosted at Great George Street. The three Russian princes plan to stay in England, taking a house in Leicester Fields for winter. In Ireland, alterations to a tax bill sparked heated debate over duties on herrings damask linen and cotton mixes, with fears for revenue and trade. The article also covers Dutch famine anxieties, weathered lightning damage in South Carolina, naval movements, lotteries, local crimes, and multiple obituaries and marriages.

London Count de Guignes Great George Street England Liliefrect Leicester-fields Duolin Lucas Ireland Hamburg Manufactura Great Britain The India Company Manchester Scotland Moryhead Fyvery Friends of Administration Lord Shannon Tam Hazue States General United Provinces Texel Guildhall Mefits Wenham and Co der Gloucester Daniel Stump Messrs Richardson and Goodluch Harrd and Co Nicholson and Wells N. B Matlins College Oxford Cooper His Majesty's Chapel-Royal St. Paul and Westminsster-abbey

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