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General Evening Post in London, Middlesex

28 Mar 1771

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General Evening Post

Location

London, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Date

Mar 28, 1771

Page

3

Outrageous Sailors Spur Prison Breaks and Dispersed Vessels

March 28 dispatches from Constantinople report sailors committing excesses and attacking Greeks and Armenians under wartime impunity. Janissaries freed criminals, risking revolt. the Grand Vizir pledged payment upon arrival at the army. Details of ships arriving and departing from Plymouth, Gowes, Havre de Grace, and Lima are listed with captains and origins.

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Aga Caimacan Drar Wind E Lord North Depeford India Pitt Punderton Virginia Molly Beckhouse Liverpool Gravisenp Pat Siders Claren Embden Benjamin Peters Rimie Sevile St. Nicolas Bilbod Meredith Price Jeet Davis Cork Hannah Jarvis Barton Diana Clapp Piscataque Minerva Allison Honduras Plymouth Albion Richardson New York Nancy Young Charlestown Black Belfast Draper Murray Dublin Dublin; New Judith, Connery, From Newry Paoli Macarty Gowes Boone Brass South Carolina Diver Rickworth Boston John Galley Darby Carthagena Havre de Grace Sizenne Langlois St. Domingo Victorie Bellenger Martinico Duc de Orleans Sally Shroudy Cowes Lima Gallardo Cadiz
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London Debates Over City Rights and Tyranny Echoed

In London the treasury and admiralty boards delay until after holidays. Lord North contemplates resignation but strong opposition blocks it. Falkland Islands expedition is stopped amid Spain dispute. mobs jeer Fox, guards mobilize, and a Lord Mayor defense debate pits city rights against parliamentary overreach calling for adherence to law and popular liberty. Alderman Sawbridge defends legality and criticizes suspending laws.

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Treasury Trade Admiralty Lord North Falkland’s Spain Tilt-yard Parliament House New Guildhall London John Fielding Col Estre Thames Rax James Hodges Court of Common Council Robert Ladbroke Barlow Trecothick James Townsend John Sawbridge William Baker Joseph Martin Oliver James the Second Cornish Watkins William Wynne, Bart Lady Bridget Lane Commons James House of Commons Alderman Saawbridge Aldesmen Lord Coke House James J
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Obituary notices mention several titled figures and heirs

Parl of Northidgted and rest of the Hey reveal deaths of Robert Lane and Mrs. Cotmay wife of George Colman along with entries for Peter de Vime Toddington at Bedfordshire and George Guerney heirs of Covent Garden theatres and related peers in a fragmented notice.

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Northidgted Hey Robert Lane Lord Bingley Cotmay George Colman Covent Gardan Clapham Peter de Vifme Toddington Bedfordshire George Guerney
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Fragmented excerpt on constitutional debates and tyranny

The text contrasts defending privileges with the people's rights, recalling how in Charles II and Queen Anne's reigns resistance led to dissolving tyrannical bodies. It warns that encroachments invite severe consequences, while some call for reform and even a hoped for upheaval in defense of England.

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Freali Charles Anne England
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Plymouth Furnaces and Mines Lease Inquiry in Glamorganshire

Notice about a term of years lease for the WOED or LET at Plymouth Furnace in Merthyr Tidvil Glamorganshire with coal ironstone and limestone mines under the estates of the Earl of Plymouth. Enquiries directed to Mr Tancred at the Chancery Office London or Mr White in Bridgnorth.

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Marthir Tidvil Glamorganshire Caltea Plymouth Earl of Merthir Tidvil Tancred Chancery Office London White Bridgnorth Shropshure William Pitt Anderson Sun Inn Maidenhead Berks Caraswett -Wikaneer Bray Windsor Lord Thomas Dean Zos Kimber William Cores Romsey Southampton James Crick Winchester Mary Garford Burge Fox Bell Iowa Thomas Dixon Ely Corporation of Horrefair John Blake Essex-street Daman Romfey Petersfield Joseth Crant Whicher John Joliffe Zeco Dyneley Gray's Son Elizabeth Crant Mermaid Inn Fearnhill Winkfield Dean and Canons of Eaton College Harrow Taplow Clifden Tyrrell Ward
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S.a.turday Marcy Veflerdly France Constantinople Miarman Townsend Lane Coventry John Potter Arthur O’bradley Gayton Don Quixote F. Newbery St. Paul's Churchyard G. Riley Taylor N.B
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