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Newspaper
General Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Mar 26, 1771
Page
1
The proprietors thank the public for long support and pledge to improve the paper with good printing, careful gathering of news, clear arrangement, varied and lawful essays, bold advertising, and focus on commerce and manufactures to earn public approval and higher demand.
The London Gazette lists mourning orders for March 28 for Moravian prince and varied court attire rules. It also records bankruptcy entries for St John Beynon, Dibbs, Crosby in Birmingham and others in Guildhall hearings with dates in April May and March.
Maritime items report arrivals from Newcastle Sunderland and Chatham aboard Amity's Accession Two Brothers and Two Sisters plus later entries from Philadelphia Liverpool Virginia and Naples. Outward bound ships include Canadian Ladi Elizabe and other vessels to Montreal Bremen Lisbon and Norway. Political notes cover London Lord Mayor case and parliamentary tensions with Alderman Oliver and motions at the Tower and the Commons.
Neweatie reports a subscription will be opened next week to aid printers who resisted legislative mandates, arguing they upheld the right of Englishmen by lawful means. It notes that differences among port masters and seamen are resolved and sailors have returned to their ships.
A fragment lists diverse market towns and their trades including cattle sheep horses and woollen goods. It notes towns such as Ditching Suffex Glocester Northampton and Exeter as well as Pembrokeshire Brecknock and Caernarvonshire connectivity to Parliament and noble titles.
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