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Newspaper

General Evening Post

Location

London, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Date

Jan 28, 1748

Page

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French Court Debates Responding to Dutch Threats and War Talk

A Paris ministerial letter from January 19 discusses whether France should answer Dutch threats with arms or war. It notes factions favoring vigorous measures, while others oppose and seek restraint, referencing historical responses by William III and Louis XIV, and detailing ministerial shifts led by Maurepas and the Abbe de la Ville.

France England United Provinces Lewis XIV Ing William III Lewis XV Cardinal Tecin Marshal Noailles Counts de Maurepas St. Florentin d’Argenton Marquis de Puyfieux Puffer Duke de Penthievre M. de Puyfieux

Duelous secretary kills Captain in Folkstone

An account from Commodore Mitchell reports Captain Gregory of the Folkstone Man of War slain in a duel by his secretary who has fled. The Dutch 44 Gun man of war driven ashore by ice is aided off by Mitchell. Dutch captain and officers to face court martial. Other items note ship captures near Brest and Bayonne, drownings near Margate, and various appointments and deaths.

Matthew Mitchell Gregory Flushing Bently Union America Margate Road Nore Baltimore Havre de Grace Brest West Indies Falcon Plymouth Palm West-Indies Webb Hopewell Kitching London Wilkins Robert Dundafs Scotland Shire of Edinburgh Duncan Forbes Lord George Manners The Guards Marquis of Granby Flanders George Mason Thomas Wilkins Deceas George Garnier the Younger George Garnier Lords of the Treasury Cuthbert Manning Isle of Guernsey Pollard Pemberton St. Vedaft Foster Lane Christ Church, London Fahey St. Bartholomew’s Hospital Little Wakering Essex George Downing Alderman Gascoyne George Morrison Leigh Downing Morrison Peter St. Hill Lock Hospital Kent-street Townsend Stafford Crane St. Bartholomew’s City and Liberty of Westminster Court- House Westminster Hall Locke Pratt Wood Whitehouse London Bridge H.s.g Lambeth Marth William Newberry Barham Poultry Compter William Taylor John Jones John Jones, Not Yet Taken, In Robbing Mrs. Barham Audley-street Grosvenor-Square Newberry Taylor Horsham James Burdet John Smallwood Black Jack Kevenhuller Richard Beaumont Whitley County of York Harwood Chapel Lancashire Holt James Hotchkis Golden-lane John Hodge Anguilla Bartlett Holborn Charles Grossman Hedgelane John Hudson King’s Band of Musick Southwark Corderoy Horsley-Down

Beware Fraudulent Bills And Sharpers In Trade

A letter urges readers to guard against a band of sharpers using fake bills to defraud customers. The scheme involves two or more thieves posing as respectable traders, presenting Bills drawn on others, then moving operations to new locations and disguising shipments to avoid detection.

Portsmouth R. W T. P J. R Strand W.C Esquire

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