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Newspaper
General Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Mar 28, 1776
Page
3
Yesterday the mails arrived from Holland France and Flanders bringing updates and correspondence. Local residents awaited deliverables and noted the steady flow of letters and news from European sources.
March reports note an ordinance forbidding anyone under ten crowns from giving alms to beggars on the streets. An alyssum is prepared to aid those ages or infirmities unable to support themselves. Other dispatches cover uprisings, wars, earthquakes, church disputes, royal births, and exiled dukes returning to settle debts.
Reports say the Parliament of Ireland will be dissolved next Wednesday and a new one summoned while Lord Buckinghamshire nears takeover as Viceroy and Sir William Draper is named Secretary. Dispatches detail Turkish frontier disease decimating populations, naval moves, ship orders at Riga and Revel, and a Brunswicker embarkation.
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