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Newspaper
General Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Feb 23, 1773
Page
1
From the London Gazette report Genoa’s Great Council reduced the number nominated for Doge to fifteen and then to nine before electing Peter Francis Grimaldi. The process spanned January and February with repeated councils confirming candidates and receiving compliments from nobility, clergy, and foreign representatives.
AMERRICE A. St. George Grenada reports the death of James Forthon aged 117, born 1645 in Bourdeaux. He arrived in the West Indies in 1694, lived 48 years on the island, and retained health until days before death. Also notes Capt. Corner and Ensign Bruce died at St. Vincent, and reports on Carib and Ohio Indian tensions.
Extracts from letters describe a violent storm in Constantinople causing extensive damage at the harbor and Seraglio area. Ships were driven ashore, cables broke, and operations at the Dardanelles suffered while lives were lost or endangered in attempts to reach the Black Sea.
Reports describe transports gathering rores and provisions to move three regiments to North America and return three regiments to England. A Court of Aldermen at Guild Hall sworn in Benjamin Hopkins as Alderman of Broad Street Ward. Also noted are ship losses, deaths from yellow fever, violent incidents, executions, marriages, births, and a list of local bankruptcies and appointments.
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