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Newspaper
General Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jul 20, 1773
Page
3
Thursday July 22 foreign affairs report notes a recent strong quake felt locally and in interior regions. Travelers describe widespread damage in Seliverea Rodotto Gallipol and intermediate towns with houses collapsed. Adrianople authorities report two minarets toppled and mosques ruined.
A long list of ships arriving at forts and Philadelphia is recorded, naming vessels such as the Good Intent Elizabeth Le Bruen Tigue Molly, and many more. Names of captains, origins like Jamaica Honduras Grenades Virginia and Havre de Grace appear, with numerous embarkations and destinations throughout the Atlantic trade lanes.
The Earl of Sandwich returns from a six week survey of Royal Navy dockyards at Bartiath Plymouth Chatham and reports on each fleet’s fate and condition. Gen Cornwallis, Governor of Gibraltar, attends a levee and holds a conference with the King. Courts discuss a bill of exceptions in the case Wag Wip-beheft of the Yaws of England. Reports from Carthagena note a Chilean and Peruvian native revolution’s completion and a descendant of the Inca on the throne. French Consul at ioa massacred in the East Indies. English and Dutch settlements fear a visit. Warnings of guineas weight adjustments and a table to value deficient coins. An Isle of Ely letter laments crops, with better prospects for grains and hay across Cambridgeshire, Leicestershire, and surrounding counties. The India-House notes a voyage from Cork to Halifax by the India-House crew aboard the Indiaman Mitchells, the Oak, Capt Marion, leaving Cork for Rhode Island.
The piece details orders by the Lord Archbishop to toll the bell at St Pauls for early rising of servants while the cathedral is cleaned. It then reports on a series of crimes and trials in London, including a forged will defrauding the South Sea Company, other burglaries, a theft from Captain Sheffield, and various robberies and jail disclosures, with brief notices of deaths and a newspaper editorial on gold coin issues and mint practices.
Creditors of John Hempfall late of Newark upon Trent in Nottinghamshire and Cambridge Centles Man deceased are required to send immediate accounts of their demands to Andrew Hantley in Newark or James Garry, Jarvin Grantham, the executors of the said Hempfall.
A historical notice advertising Royal Letters Patent 2D composition for manuring land to grow turneps. It outlines application rates from sixteen to twenty-five pounds per acre, price details, and discounts for larger quantities. It lists several gentlemen farmers who tested the manure and reported favorable results compared with dung. Names and sale locations across multiple towns are provided for orders and further information.
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