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Newspaper
General Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Mar 11, 1773
Page
1
Yesterday night two riders traveling from Lancaster to Manchester were attacked by two armed footpads. They refused to surrender, were shot dead, and their bodies hidden in a whin area and a marl pit. Suspects were captured and jailed in Lancaster after a confession surfaced.
A vessel named S5 arrives on March 10, winds from the northeast. Several ships such as the Cornelia Noble and a Sevile brig head to Amsterdam and Hamburgh respectively. Numerous arrivals include Refoloution Parry from Smyrna Scanderoon and Henry Dawkins Henderson from London Madeira bound for Jamaica.
Readers are told of a Guildhall gathering where the Lord Mayor and city officials heard a petition from liverymen urging shorter Parliaments. Speeches by Sir Watkin Lewes and others urged voters to back annual or at least triannual parliaments, with the hall adopting a formal engagement against long Parliaments.
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