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General Evening Post

Location

London, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Date

May 21, 1776

Page

3

London and Halifax News From Around 177? Military Moves

A Sardinian envoy meets Lord Weymouth over fare while Admiralty reportedly orders six thousand more marines. Howe reportedly landed at Halifax with reinforcements planned. a Providence line notes armed ships laden with warlike stores and gunpowder from Cape Nichola Mole via Old France. Philadelphia reports coast blocked by warships, vessels from the West Indies perhaps cut off, with Curaçao and St Eustatius listed as sources. Portuguese say Umity voyage at fault due to contraband trade. Aldborough damaged off Gibraltar after gale. Spithead sees ships carrying horses for America under convoy. Hessian troops reportedly under way from Stade. Westminster militia trained at Hounslow Heath. Colonel Chauvel leads twenty-eight days of drill. speech by Ward defends militia as internal defense, not abroad service.

Turin Cape Nichola Mole the Mole Old France Philadelphia West Indies Curacoa St. Eustatia Umity Worth Brazil Plymouth Aldborough Gibraltar Portmouth Spithead America Stade P. S Westminster Regiment Middlesex Militia Chauvel Hounflow Heath Ward Great Britain

Pride and loyalty amid war and law in a tumultuous era

The article narrates royalist sentiment praising the Prince and Duke of Northumberland, urging unity to restore peace, and notes recent arrivals, financial notices for 3 percent consols, ship safety reports, a Dublin tragedy of three paper makers dying in one day, a Wiltshire man’s fortune, a major fire in Wigan with casualties, burglaries and arrests at Bow Street, and executions and jail sentences handed down at Old Bailey. It also lists obituaries including the Earl of Jersey’s infant and William Cooper, and notes church livings and Scottish deaths.

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