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Newspaper
General Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jul 28, 1774
Page
1
In Leeds on Monday afternoon, Mr. Stuckland, a hay-maker from Leeds, fell from a haystack being made in Leeds Park. He sustained a fatal injury and died from the accident, with onlookers reporting the collapse of the stack.
A fragmented list of arrivals at multiple posts and ships including barques from Barbadoes Dublin Bristol and London. Names such as Ann Tayloe Osilvie Betsey Lofthouse and Duffell appear with vessels like St Mirce Gua gs and Prosper Clemente. The text cites ships from Rotterdam and Newfoundland with passengers Clemente Moran and Hudson among others.
Paris letters dated July 13 report plans to suppress the court pot and appoint officials including Grand Referendary de Cisnn and Mr. de Lamoignon, with Barentin and Agerlau in key posts. Lower Rhine notes detail Jesuit suppression and secular control. Dantzick dispatches suggest Prussia gains accept with Fahr-wafler terms, troops to withdraw. Paris extract shows a royal inoculation episode where the King was visited by disguised Grey Sisters and the Queen, with humorous affect.
The report covers arrivals including Gen Conway and an introduction to the Imperial Majesty, a new Groom of the King’s Wardrobe appointment, ship repairs at Deptford, and imports of flour and grain from Maryland Amsterdam and Bremen. It also details a Middlesex freeholders meeting at the George inn Kiswick praising representation in Parliament, plus court verdicts on Calder navigation damages and Carlisle tolls, and local incidents, marriages, and deaths across various London and provincial locales.
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