General Evening Post in London, Middlesex

Privateers and ship losses plague Atlantic routes

Reports list several ships captured or ransomed near March and April. Neptune Gay and Ellen Degan from London to the Streights reach Brest. Happy Enterprize from St Kitts to London seized by a Bayonne privateer. Endeavour and Benjamin from Jersey to Newfoundland also taken. Clementina from Gottenburgh to Peterhead ransomed. Charming Molly to Leeward Islands carried to Guardaloupe. Charming Sally from Philadelphia to Newry founder after 240 leagues from Cape Virginia, crew saved by Spencer from Maryland arriving at the River. Local misfortunes include the drowning of a boy after a cart accident near Bow Fair and a servant driving cattle who killed his master’s two-year-old, followed by his suicide. Deaths are reported of Mrs Mary Simmonds in Knightsbridge, Mr Holmes drowned near Gravesend, and a woman dies after a boat overturns crossing Gravesend to Tilbury. Daniel Blake stands on the Pillory for perjury. marriage of Rev Philip Barton to Miss Robinson. Dr John Stanley dies in Leicester. Mrs Ward dies in St Martins Lane. estate of Edward Ashe comes to William Ashe.