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Newspaper
General Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Mar 05, 1774
Page
3
Margar Fer Adams, eldest of two condemned fitters, was executed in the Grass Market this afternoon for the murder of Janet M'Intire, a Glasgow shop keeper.
Oxford March 5 four persons Tho Painter for Sheep Healing Sarah Parker for house breaking Edward Parslow for stealing a mare and Thomas Bailey for returning from transportation were sentenced to death, with Painter to be executed while the others were reprieved. Winchester March 5 two men Rob ert Ruffin alias Ruffin for stealing a mare and James Fleming for stealing a gelding and a pony were later reprieved. Salisbury March 7 Eliz Mole, a poor vagrant woman, died on the road after leaving Dorsetshire for York during a march to the city for settlement, with the coroner ruling death hastened by lack of due care and necessaries.
Vessels sailed for the River Neptune Loreing from Boston and other ships like the King George Cropton for Honduras Polly Ayres for the Streights Duchess of Cumberland Hunter for Oporto etc. Arrivals include Union Emierton from Seville Vulcan Harrison from Liverpool Saily Fawkes from Bristol Draper Moor from London and more at Dover Belfast Liverpool Torbay and Seville ports.
From the Boston Gazette and Newport reports. In Boston a broadside calls Brethren to ready defend against Tea Consignees described as traitors and threats public tarring and feathering, while in Bedford Dart worth fifty seven ladies vow not to use India tea and celebrate a man returning tea.
From Berlin on February 2 and Potsdam February 15 a royal edict imposes a twelve percent duty on sugar imports to Silesia from all foreign countries and an eight percent duty on sugar entering Poland. The measure, if enacted, stands to harm mercantile states reliant on trade.
Letters from the fronts recount a proposed cessation of arms between Turkey and Russia, noting a party’s reluctance to meet terms and signaling a likely soon conclusion. Cadiz dispatches dated Feb 1 claim the Frigate from Vera Cruz arrived at Havana bearing 5,114,446 piastres for the King and 17,856,413 piastres for Commerce plus 315,080 piastres in cash, with a cargo of cochineal indigo copper and other goods. Berlin reports show city improvement funded by royal sums including a new theatre and 22 houses plus an elegant stone bridge to connect old and new sections.
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