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Newspaper

General Evening Post

Location

London, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Date

Jun 17, 1773

Page

3

Earthquake Damage Seen on Archipelago Islands

Reports from the Dardanelles indicate strong shakings felt on Styra and Scopolo amid fears of a Russian fleet strike on Tenedos. Across Algiers wine and spirits are banned for a year, with strict searches and penalties for possession. Warsaw notes delays in delegation fittings tied to Prussian partition disputes. Elsewhere, Baltic observation fleet plans and Polish military movements stir cautious outlooks as authorities brace for further tensions.

Styra Scopolo Dardanelles Rufsian Tenedos Algiers Pie Bey Tunis Warsaw Fune'z Vienna Petersbourg House of Austria Prussia Great Poland Czenstochan Kamimieck Denmark Baltick Bafsbel Paris Guyenne Hague Fune Count de ‘Romanzow Danube

Mutinous Crew Driver Logmaster's Death at Margate

Canterbury June 16 report that a trading vessel’s master, mutinied by his men, fled to shore at Margate. A local boat checked the ship, quiet afterward. The master lodged at the Ship inn then leaped from a two story window near 30 feet high and died at the Crown with eleven guineas and silver aboard, believed to be mentally unsettled.

Canterbury Margate Vene

Ship News June arrivals list and routes

S Ship news dated June 17 reports various arrivals and voyages. Wind southeast, vessels including Hunter Kennedy bound for Lisbon, Kent Elder for Lisbon, India Pilot Boyce Swift Lante listed. Gravesend from Jamaica and numerous arrivals from Dominica, Jamaica, China, Bristol, and Carolina ports follow with ship names and captains.

Dear S.E Hunter Kennedy Lisbon Kent Elder India Boyce Swift Lante Gravesend London Packer Cook Jamaica Sand Prosper Grenier South Carolina Longbrook Lee North Carolina Exeter Diana White Dominica Lancair Liberty Wildman Portland Bramiwall Gottenburgh Louisa-Ufrica Olbers China Penhagen King Denmark Schifter Falmnguth Ann, Smith Alderney Ranger Longa St. Croix Rusia Baxter Bristol Portsmouth Wilson South Cartlina

Fragmented Meeting of Deaths and Crimes in London

A lengthy 18th century column reports on mass illness after a church event with fatalities, a high life case of marital infidelity, thieves fleeing with silverware and a gold watch, a gang’s robberies across the east end, counterfeit halfpence operations yielding high daily takings, impostor passes in Guildhall, a man dying in a Blackfriars Bridge area fit, several executions at Tyburn, and reactions of spectators including prostitutes. Also notes marriages and deaths including Rev. Alexander Cleve, William Lee, Mrs. Drury, and Matthew Gibson.

Saulien Burgundy Fleet-street Thesar Bowsstreet New Prison Clerkenwell Clerkenwell Bridewell London Wood-street Turner Bridewell Guildhall Black-friars Bridge Tyburn Wiliam Collins Thomas Oats Thomas Spooner Collins Cates Spooner Alex. Cleve Stockton Miss Lay Norwich Knightsbridge William-Ann-Henry Lee Marquis of Lothian Regiment of Dragoons Red Lionftreet

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