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Newspaper
General Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jul 22, 1773
Page
3
A July mail from France reports from Alexandria dated the 11th that a sizable insurrection occurred there due to Rusgan corsairs. Citizens allegedly angered, attacked European houses with stones and the guards prepared to board ships to return home as authorities planned dispersal measures.
Beil country news reports Smyth arrested near Wick for the long-ago murder of Mrs. Conéybéere and her two daughters at Woodford, tied to the GF Monksilver house in Somerseshire. Saturday night 22 sheep killed by the Fightning in a field owned by Rarmex Baker at Blagdon, Somertechire.
Arrivals and sailings listed for numerous ships at ports including Waterford Jamaica Dublin Guernsey and Scotland with vessels such as Francis Fox Augustus Czfar John and William Akerman plus many others from Embden Petersburgh Havre de Grace and Boston detailing ships names owners and origin points during July 22.
From the South Carolina Gazette Charles Town June 4 reports M de St Pierre from New Bourdeaux says his vineyard thrives and will yield wine and silk next year. Other flourishing vineyards on Broad River, a French-supported cultivator awarded by the Society for Arts. Also updates on colonial governance, Indian land policies, and naval matters, with Negro trade prices halved and a cargo selling at forty pounds each.
Advice from St Malo reports a violent thunderstorm with thunder and lightning that damaged houses and crops, killed several people and many cattle, and harmed shipping along the coast.
Letters report French forces building forts in Mauritius and a fleet ready to sail, with a death in Saint Helena. London news covers port arrivals, a large gambling win, and debates on light gold coinage. Charities, hospital reports, suicides, drownings, thefts, and executions appear alongside marriages and deaths in a dense daily chronicle.
A historic notice records a unanimous resolution by clergy to resist binding human explanations of scripture and to renew Parliament petitions. The society to meet first Wednesday after Parliament convenes, with correspondence through the Feathers Tavern, Strand.
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