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Newspaper
General Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Mar 07, 1776
Page
3
The latest letters and dispatches report a royal birth in the Seraglio with a princess named Hat tigé. Brunswick troops move toward Ritzebuttel and Bremen to embark by Weser, while Algiers sees rising Bedouin tensions and Moroccan mountaineer uprisings over tribute.
Dutliz reports vessels opposing the embargo on provisions have passed entry but were refused to be outvoiced. The case moves to a legal determination to see if the King's Proclamation without Parliament acts as law. In Dublin a letter notes John Lloyd of Gloucester forms a small armed company with scarlet coat and laced hat to quell rioters the White Boys and other disturbances.
A 1776 style report lists numerous arrivals and names vessels such as Three Friends from Antigua, Prince William from Belfast, and Adventure from St. Abe's. It notes heavy trade impacts, Montgomery in Quebec, and British actions including ships for Quebec and a Finland tour, with commentary on a New Comedy The Spleen at Drury Lane.
Wednesday evening a house in the Adelphi of Sir Thomas Mills was robbed of plate. A woman, Mrs Hempstead, was found dead in her bed at Mr Bignal’s house in Chancery Lane. A gentleman in a carpet died of apoplexy in Goodman's Fields. A woman in mourning was found drowned in Sir George Whitmore’s moat. Births marriages and deaths follow, noting Mrs Foster Tufnell’s daughter, Rev Dolling’s marriage, Mr Trueman’s marriage, Elvin jun to Mrs Pope, and several obituaries including Mr Wallwyn Strudwick and Mrs Deliot.
The lively scene features Jack Kubrick and Merton discussing New Market in algebraic terms with humor. Pantheon Gabrielli Jubilee and Duenna are mock contenders. the medical tribe and modern physic innovations get ribbed. Garrick Roscius prologue, Colman epilogue, and Mrs King banter frame a Loutherbourg painting scene of the Spa Fields and Pantheon.
The notice advertises Ryder's Sheer Almanack and a new edition connected to the Maccy lift with price and subscription details. It lists many supporters and subscribers including Hoare and Co, Gosling and Co, Drummond and Co, and numerous bishops, peers, and clergy across England Ireland and Scotland, calling for funds to aid distressed Church of England clergy in North America.
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