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Newspaper
General Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jun 13, 1776
Page
1
Warsaw May 24 Universals to district Dietines demand agreement on proposed measures. Permanent Council and commissions draft plans including a major discussion on the effects of the Ex Jesuits. They aim to repurpose the effects to support public schools, noting many elites hold large portions without proper dues.
AMERIC HA Philadelphia March 31 On the 21st instant the Congress came to resolutions urging assemblies conventions and councils to promote culture of hemp cotton and wool in the United Colonies. It recommends establishing in each colony a Society for the Improvement of Agriculture Arts Manufactures and Commerce and maintaining correspondence between such societies. It also urges measures to introduce duck and fail cloth and steel manufactures into colonies where not known and to improve them where they are.
A fragmentary log lists ships sailing to Barbadoes and Ja snaca with Leendert and Matthys, 450 troops landed from Stade, and several vessels bringing crews from Lisbon Norway Cork Bou Jogos and Alexandra. Arrivals at Paris Liverpool Londonderry and other ports include Mary from Malaga Tom from Cadiz Dobih Racehorts from London Elza from Bowl Britannia from Liverpool Hercules from London and Indian King from Tobago among others.
In London SAERAL stoves and furniture at Carleton House are aired as Majesties tour the gardens and order alterations in preparation for the elder princes. News arrives of noble peerage plans for Sir Langton Gideon. Thomas Oliver arrives from Massachusetts Bay, while Sir James Wright returns from Georgia. Burgoyne is set to command in Canada, Carton remains at Quebec. A full Admiralty Board meeting with the Navy Board discussed postings, and Captain Hamilton was promoted to command a 64 gun ship.
An April letter from Philadelphia describes American naval presence at Newfoundland and outlines a British strategy involving Quebec and Montreal. The writer foresees a multi-pronged move through St Lawrence, Crown Point, Ticonderoga, and on to Albany, with a coastal descent to trap provincial forces. It notes Loyalist orders, privateering actions, and updates on officers, ships, and powder supplies, reflecting the era’s strategic uncertainty and martial tensions.
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