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Newspaper
General Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jul 01, 1790
Page
1
Government reports Barbary corsairs rising in our seas harming trade and navigation. A frigate is to sail for the Levant and ten patents are issued to captains to form two man companies. In Cagliari a corsair vessel was overtaken near Tacco Jara. two armed chalops captured her carrying 21,000 sequins and valuable merchandize.
Wind from the southwest. the Pigot and Ballantyne sail from Bengal. Shepherders and Brander depart Lisbon. Earl of Ettingham from Jamaica. In the Downs remain Adventures and London. Termagant and Warploops. Swift, Johanna Catherina, Falksbergen to Gibraltar. Olive Branch from Gibraltar. Gravesend reports Hebe from Denia. Abigail from Charles Town. Concord from Jamaica. Triton and Diligence from Memel.
The Drawing Room at St James's Palace hosted their Majesties Princesses Augusta and Elizabeth and numerous nobles and envoys. A Cabinet Council at Whitehall with Pitt and Chatham followed by a Queen’s drawing room at Kew, with Duke of Orleans and Duke of Leeds meeting officials and nightly entertainments.
Sir J. Morthead and Sir J. Le Roach retain posts while Lord Penrhyn and Lord Lisburne lead regional results. A massive Cadiz four decker is reportedly the largest ship yet, and Westmin poll totals crown Fox and Hood with 2960 and 2632 votes respectively. Crime highlights include robberies near Finchley Covent Garden and a bank-note heist in Soho-square. Married news covers Sir William Wake’s union and Humphrey Butler’s engagement. deaths record Major-General William Roy and two elderly notables. A peculiar 102-year-old man, Poor Jack, is noted as deceased after a frugal life.
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