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Newspaper
General Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Feb 01, 1776
Page
2
Reports from Paris describe a large palace fire extinguished after spreading ruin. The Crown allocated funds to aid merchants and distressed families as losses reach millions, with suspicions turning to an Irish debtor confined in the Conciergerie.
Canterbury reports a coroner's inquest found accidental death after a man named John Stapleton, a Whitstable resident and peruke maker, attempted to cross a dyke on ice near Tankerton. He fell through and his body was recovered from the ice after friends noted the sudden rise of water. He had traveled from Whitstable to Tankerton the previous Sunday to visit a friend and returned despite warnings of danger.
Wind drove the Mercury Packet Fortes under Captain Wes, Drar, and Fer to East India ports, where the vessel remains anchored. Crew reported steady progress despite rough seas as cargo and passengers reach intended destinations.
Report from London cites the Lord Chancellor at Court approving and signing the judges' appointment for the ensuing Lent, with his Majesty's confirmation. The dispatch adds no word of Quebec in provincial hands as claimed by some papers. News from America recounts Dunmore’s October rout of Virginia Provincials at Kemps Landing and a clash near the North Landing, where Marines faced fire in a swamp. several killed or wounded and Hutchings captured, with Lord Howe likely to command the fleet again.
Reports note orders to horse-dealers to hire draught horses for transport to America for camp equipage and artillery, with light vessels to be fitted for American service. Letters from Jamaica speak of American families settling on West Indian islands as patriots join provincial forces. Also mentioned are royal deliberations on Jewish decree enforcement, coastal vessel incidents, court actions, and local deaths and marriages.
Mirehouse, a long retired tate peruke-maker, and Mrs. Kidman wife of oilman Mr. Kidman of Newgates' street are mentioned in a Thursday night notice. The same day Thomas Brunsden, a head excise clerk, is noted at Holborn residence.
A broad one volume set offers a compendium of sciences and arts for learners with limited leisure. It covers theology ethics Christianity Judaism Mahomet pagan religions grammar rhetoric logic geography chronology history physiology botany anatomy pharmacy medicine polity and economics heraldry and mathematics. Printed for the author and sold by W Owen and booksellers.
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