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General Evening Post

Location

London, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Date

Jul 24, 1773

Page

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Foreign Affairs and Ship Movements Across the Baltic and Atlantic

The Ruffian Minister informs the King that a fleet will cruise the Baltic to exercise its seamen. The King orders ports to admit and aid these ships if storms force shelter. Multiple arrivals and sailings are noted, including Indiamen and pilots, with ships listed at Bristol Dublin Leghorn Smyrna Constantinople and Cadiz among others. A Newfoundland expedition and various vessels from York to Jamaica and Europe are also cataloged.

Stockhorn Baltic Hague John Grunter Republick Wind Fox East- Indiaman India Boyce Swift Lante Dear Georg and James Gre-nadens de Sweft Lante Gaavesenn Rouffeau Hatch Dominica Stakesby Mockett Petersburgh Powell William Wilson Guenfey Dublin Betsey Jackson Jamaica Peggy Hodge Tobago Frederick Groningen Rebecca Crofeir Stettin John Athburn Nancy Horseley London Leghorn Houghton, Wills Hull Devonshire Watt Scandaroous Tygress Bemith Smyrna Sussanah Beale Constantinople Tuscany Dormer Alexandria Newfoundland Durell, Livet Success Corbett Ersey Ean Bruce Botton St. Francis Trimblet Cheesman Phenix Lee New-England London Packet Stock Unity le Page Cete South Carolina Mercury Gavin Leith

Disfranchising Debate at Guildhall and Royal Appointments

Last Saturday at Guildhall the Recorder settled a dispute over disfranchising Goldsmiths Company members. After two hours, the matter was deferred to December. Also, Lord Tyrawley’s funeral followed with full ceremony at Chelsea churchyard. Military and court appointments include Major-General Erle as Colonel of the 28th in Ireland, Captain Francis Drake, and several Yeoman and Pages appointments.

Ireland Lord Townshend Francis Drake David Howell, Esq Elliot Rankin Efgs Earl of Hertford Tho. Palman Barnard John Hooke Lord Talbot Ewry Mr. Lewis

Wreck and maritime notes amid London advisories

A July 13 letter from Elsinore reports a wreck found on the Reef, thought sunk 30 years ago and linked to Capt. Thomas Beles of Ramspate. The Maria from Liverpool and the Humber from Davies’s Straits are noted, with crew saved and fish aboard. A 70-ton yacht launched at Deptford, built for Earl Ferrers, is described as an experimental craft whose failure would have nationwide impact. Local crimes, robberies, inheritances, marriages, births, and bankruptcies fill the rest of the column, including a child run over near Blackfriars Bridge, forged drafts, highway robberies, and notices of marriages and deaths.

Davies Streights Hull Deptford Earl Ferrers Poultry-compter Gal Fleet-market Bowstreet Farnham-green Stoke Newington Highgate Finchley Kensington Knightbridge Fulham Road Curzon-street Captain Innes Hodgson, Esq Cavendith-street Cavendith-square Marr Basil Keith Jamaica Miss Warren Staffordshire George Warren Sewell Gray Vauxhall Elizabeth Eames John Greenhow Bethnal-green Ann Tomlinson Kingsland Putneypark Baron Tracey His Majesty’s Court of Exchequer Berkeley-square Willis Exchequer Knightsbridge Tfrace Birchley Bishopsgate-treet Richmond Surry Ann James Park-street Grosvenor-square George Beal Abbot Langley Hertfordshire le Grand Smith Samuel Smith Old Jewry John Wordge Webb Mr. Webb Star King-street Westminster Frey Rainbow Ludgate Hill

Remarkable eye surgery by Baron de Wenzel aids blind child

A letter to the General Evening Post details a blind child born with cataracts who, under Baron de Wenzel, has undergone successful cataract extraction in both eyes. The author notes great improvement after the right eye and rapid progress after the left, offering further information to readers seeking similar relief. The writer, S. Bosanquet, director of a bank, signs from Forest House Layton.

Aving Baron de Wenzel Pall-mall Eye Sam Forest-house Layton S. Bosanquet

Spilsby meeting on fen drainage proposals in August

Sahe Owners and Proprietors of Estates in the may be spelled SBAKE of Bollingbrooke and East Hole Land in Lincoln seek a meeting at the White Hart in Spilsby to discuss the state of the fen and adjacent lands. They plan to consider methods to obtain drainage and improvements through Parliament.

Bollingbrooke East Hole County of Lincoln East Fen White Hart Spilsby Edward Bevan Air-street Piccadilly E. Bevan Samuel Sayee Forfe-street Bath S. Linden High-ftrest Suthhampton Motterfraw Derby Linson Artichedt Norwich

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