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Newspaper
General Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jun 08, 1775
Page
4
The writer argues that Britain cannot easily quell the American rebellion. England’s small force and lack of strong defenses could be overwhelmed by American resistance, coastlines, and navigable rivers. They warn British allies and rivals to beware, as desperation risks spreading terror to Canadians, Indians, and enslaved people in the British empire.
During the war Gen Amherst faced a French twelve gun vessel on a lake. Putnam persuaded him to let four men use wedges and a beetle to breach the rudder cavity at night. They drove in the wedges, the ship drifted, was blown ashore, and captured the next morning.
A dated verse fragment scoffs at cant and political boasters in lines urging skepticism. The excerpt notes the futility of promises from patriots, preachers, fortune sellers, and quacks, closing with a refrain and a chant-like cadence. The tone mirrors a 19th century style with repeated refrain phrases.
A collection of diplomatic notes from Madrid Stockholm and Paris cover royal marriages, shifting alliances, and a possible Prussian service for the Brunswick prince. Reports warn of Spanish naval movements toward Algiers, plus a deadly Lincolnshire murder where a son killed his mother during a school day. The piece notes market prices and local incidents including a London lottery, thefts, and a charitable museum draw.
A man died near the Fen and was placed in the round house by the church until Friday morning when the Coroner's Inquest sat on the body. He was then committed to Lincoln Castle to await trial at the next assizes. Also noted, Nathaniel Warren was recently elected Alderman in place of Alderman Bailie believed lost with the Aurora frigate bound for the Indies.
WINPENNY and Co at the King s Arms Arima advertise their remaining supply of Museum Lottery Tickets in a wide range of numbers. They note the Mare of the wheels favors adventurers over the art day of drawing. Tickets and Shires in the State Lottery are sold by recount and all related business is conducted with fidelity.
High water at London Bridge noted for tomorrow at 1 pm with preceding and following tides listed. Market prices show Bank Stock India ditto 154 South Sea ditto, South Sea Old Ann ditto 8734 3 per cent Bank An Reduced 8243h, Confol and others, various India bonds and Navy bills. Lottery tickets at 21 shillings and 131 yards.
Indebted to you for health I send thanks for a remedy taken after thirty years of illness including fever digestion pain and rheumatic complaints. A bottle and a half of the Drops eased fever cough and digestive distress, with months of discharges and a restored appetite, claims to prove efficacy and warns against counterfeit bottles sold at higher prices. March 33, 1975, ELIZ. HADEN from School-House Ha-iam Long- Acre expresses belief in the medicine’s virtue and directs readers to Mr. Norton’s address near Piccadilly London for authentic bottles priced six shillings.
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