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Newspaper
General Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Mar 26, 1774
Page
3
Tuesday, March 29 notes a 2 percent offering arriving by the mails from Holland and France. Rome records February 26 as the date of related dispatches.
Winchester reports a minister’s suicide after an inquest with verdict of insanity. Salisbury notes Edward Hendy, an eight year old apprentice, found dead in water after alleged beating by a journeyman. jury cites nox. compos ventis. Ipswich records five executions at Bury sessions: Humphrey Scott for housebreaking, Fletchy Martin for horse stealing, John Hardy Christopher How and William Horn for sheep stealing.
Shipping notices list arrivals at Dover and Dublin from London and Rotterdam. Ships include Queen Charlotte Berwick from Rotterdam and Christian Buck from Amsterdam. Cargoes feature Elizabeth Richardson from Chester and multiple vessels from London toward Dublin and the Grenades with various names and captains.
At St James’s yesterday General Clavering and several officers bid farewell before marching to embark for India. A circulating report from the West End claimed General Keppel warned that a formidable French force from Toulon aims to join Turkish fleets to strike Constantinople. Admiral Greig’s Mediterranean squadron reportedly has orders to force the Dardanelles. Lord Holdernesse and Lord Harcourt were tipped for blue ribbons. A gold cup with diamonds arrived at court as a gift from an Indian Nabob. The Mansfield Indiaman, laden with falepetre for Madras, was wrecked in Bengal. the crew and private traders survived, while the ship and cargo were lost. Holland faces alarm amid these events.
Reports describe late floods breaching dykes near Meyse mouth in South Holland with 300 repair workers dispatched. A trial of a new plough by the Society of Arts in the Strand shows promise across soft road soils, while other notices list illnesses, accidents, executions, births, marriages, and deaths from the period.
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