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Newspaper
General Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Mar 02, 1775
Page
3
Letters from France and Holland report a devastating plague in Jeddo and surrounding areas with 709000 deaths in 1773. Updates describe floods, harsh cold in Silesia, a 115 year old Polish resident, and news of Pius VI’s election in Rome.
Shipping news lists numerous East Indiamen and other vessels sailing to Far India Constantinople and Virginia to Carolina, with ships such as Timbiel Swan Hamilton and Liberty Lessly. Arrivals include Venus from Oporto Union from Rotterdam African King from Antigua and other vessels reaching Dartmouth Bristol Oporto Jamaica Falmouth Plymouth Dover and South Carolina ports.
Extract from Rome reports the Conclave split into Zealous Royalists and Indifferent factions. Cardinal Braschi, from the Zealous, is proclaimed Pope Pius the Sixth at about two oclock. He is 58 and opponents fear the election will harm the Holy States. Also a Hamburg letter notes Britain blocking North American trade.
The King of Prussia imposes a twelve percent duty on all Polish transit goods and Polish production passing through his realms for foreign account, pressuring Poland to buy only goods made in Prussia, prompting questions about consistency with recent British declarations. The piece also reports a public welcome for Henry Cruger in Bath and Keynsham, a procession to celebrate his parliamentary return, court adjournments and notable deaths, marriages, and appointments in London society.
The fragment notes five churches in the city and mentions a residence at Newington. It includes partial banking terms and prices for various securities such as India bonds, Old Annuities, New Annuities, and Confederate bonds with mixed percentages, indicating a market listing or brokerage page. The text references a Ms Jold White, a bank cashier, and listing of bonds like India Ann, Navy and Viet Bill, and various Confederate issues.
Notices from the Commissioners for Chelsea Hospital instruct London and within 25 miles pensioners to attend at the Secretary's office for examination by a Board from March 6 to March 16. Distances beyond 25 miles require future advertisements and nonappearance risks being deemed dead or provided for by government. John Micholl, Secretary. Also includes a commodity notice about a Surinam cattle potatoes sale with farming costs and expected profits.
Account of the expedition to Port Egmont in Falkland Islands in 1792. Includes the Penguin Shallop’s transfers during their stay, by Bernard Penros. Published for J. Johnson at St Paul’s Churchyard with general foreign literature reviews for January.
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