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Newspaper
General Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jun 18, 1774
Page
3
Paris discusses potential resignations in high offices as Count de May nears a port assignment and Marshal Duke de Broglio may see alterations. Duke de Vrillieres may resign as secretary of state and Mr de Boynes could quit the Marines post amid expected state reforms.
Dublin reports the marriage of Capt Lancelot Hill to Miss Pery sister to Edmund Sexton Pery Speaker of the House. A Boston letter mentions an effigy carried in streets with a noose then burned at Liberty Tree amid large crowds, reflecting volatile public sentiment.
SHT.P-NEW St. Dent reports wind, sailings and arrivals of numerous vessels including Cumberland, Robert, Tongue bound for Havre and Seville, Arabella and Two Brothers reaching from Oporto and Groningen, and arrivals at Dartmouth Lisbon Waterford Dublin Cadiz and Liverpool with ships from Oporto Glasgow Bristol Cork and New-York.
Saturday reports Prince Ernest of Mecklenburgh Strelitz arriving at Kew from Hanover. Dispatches from Lisbon to be laid before the Privy Council. Brevities include political contest previews for Lincoln, appointments such as Duke of Grafton as Comptroller of the Green Wax Office, and preparations for openings at Kew and Richmond gardens. Weather and storm damages, military discipline notes, Lisbon mail arrivals, robberies, accidents, marriages, and obituaries fill the rest of the page.
Mayrath 1774 records the Adjourned Quarter Sessions of the Peace at Hertfordshire to discuss plans for enlarging and repairing the county gaol. Gentlemen retire to meet at the Shire-House in Hertford on the first day of summer to consider the best method to raise the necessary funds and apply to enable the Peace officers to carry the plan into execution. Nigholl, Clerk of the Peace.
This Day was palifeed and neatly printed. The text lists numerous publishers such as J Buckland W Bowyer J and F Rivington Hawes Clarke and Collins W Owen and others. It references the works of the author of the Night Thoughts revised and corrected by himself.
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