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Newspaper
General Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Nov 03, 1774
Page
1
Report covers late October weather praised as finest of the season and a capital conviction of Lamb for houghing Richard Thatcher. Trial notes include insolence in court, Newgate confinement, and a hope that cruel practice ends.
Canterbury November 2 Friday last a suspected clerk to Alexander Harry Big of Edinburgh was seized just as he prepared to embark on a hired vessel at Dover and taken to Sr Dunstan's jail. He stole papers including a draft on Archibald Stewart and Geo Callum bankers valued at 1001. Several accomplices fled on another vessel but missed departure. Much of the papers were recovered Sunday night. The Rev Mr Ayerst CHartham house broke into by chimney and three doors forced, robbing sundry articles.
The record lists numerous ships arriving or entering warning ports, including names like Fortunate, Mahler, Christiad, and Two Sisters from Hamburg Bremen and Norway. It cites arrivals at Dover Limerick Bristol Jersey and Naples with ships such as Venus and Symmetry and notes cargo and routes among Jamaica Barbadoes Dublin and Newfoundland.
Long column of parliamentary and civic news. the Lord Chancellor hosts the Lord Mayor elect Alderman Wilkes after London Livery chose him as Chief Magistrate. Also reports Bristol city election results, French and Italian diplomatic notes, Portsmouth and Osnabrug preparations, and assorted births marriages and crimes.
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