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Newspaper
General Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jan 09, 1748
Page
2
In the Christmas Holy Days a young gentleman shooting at crows on a wheat-rick in Monmouthshire was fatally shot when another traveler from Oxford nearby discharged a gun into his thigh. He died two days later from the wound.
A brief sailing notice lists the Crown and the Sabath Sloop heading outward for the East Indies, with the Prince Frederick bound for Antigua, the Owfar for Jamaica, and the Sarah for Rotterdam, all remaining in the Downs amid light northerly winds.
Letters from France describe an insurrection at Toulouse sparked by two merchants who hoarded corn in dry vaults to sell at high prices. Parliaments, oaths, and adjournments fill the day as ships arrive from Leghorn Hamburg and Newfoundland. Privateers, prizes, and robberies mix with court notices and transport orders as sailors petition for prize money.
Navy officers announce that interest is payable on certain Navy and Transport Bills registered between October 1746 and June 1747. Holders may present the bills at the Treasurer’s Office in Broad Street to receive interest and have the amounts written off on the documents.
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