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Newspaper

General Evening Post

Location

London, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Date

Nov 16, 1790

Page

3

Escapee Lovelass Recaptured After Taunton Highway Theft

Bath November 15 Notorious criminal D Lovelass freed from Schelster jail attempted further escapes with fellow convicts at Bristol before being recaptured in Bath on Sunday night confined with irons hidden by handkerchiefs. A jail break attempt by the Felons party failed and a woman visitor was found concealing a weapon beneath her stays.

Country News Bath D. Lovelass Taunton Bristol Schelster Lovelass

Royal London sightings and fleet rumors at home

In London yesterday the King and Queen with three elder Princesses arrived at Buckingham Palace and attended the Levee at St James's, with audiences for Pitt and Yonge. Reports spoke of thirty ships kept in commission and Col Fletcher’s uncertain fate in India amid French civic oath events at Smyrna. Anecdote recalls a sailor challenging a preacher at Pallet church.

Buckingham-house Windsor Lodge St. James’s Palace Duke of Clarence Mr. Pitt Earl of Chatham George Yonge York Marquis of Stafford Cardigan Ailesbury Elgin Lord Willoughby Hereford Robert Boyd Robert Gibraltar Portsmouth Eart India Col. Fletcher Tippoo Col. Baillie India Fletcher Smyrna National Assembly of France Pallet Somersetshire Ahab Jehoshaphat Rauid-Gilead

News and notices from colonial seas to Cambridge medical oddities

The item recaps frostbound arrivals from St Petersburg and Baltic ports, reports Berenice’s voyage from Philadelphia with a peace dispatch, and describes a curious experiment by Mr. Harwood at Cambridge University validating blood transfusion between a dog and calf. It also notes tanning advances, rumors of the Radcliffe Library haunting, and a King-in-Council report on executions and transports from Newgate, with multiple names and charges listed. Married and death notices close the fragment.

Lignore St. Ptersburgh Baltick Berenice Philadelphia John Sheene Plymouth Congress Harwood University of Cambridge Philosophical Transactions Royal London Society Macbride Radcliffe Oxford Newgate Edward Lowe William Jobbins Francis Gilding Aldersgate-street Francis Fenton John Pearce William Papps Thomas Tyler William Fielder James Lindly Wiliam Fielder John Thomas Phillips Margaret Cockburn James Royer James Smith Edward Ivory William Slaughter William Grace Thomas Brown John Brown Thomas Newton Francis ‘Gibbons William Barbridge Arthur Skeere Lotty James Sullivan Edward Nicholson Jane Norton Stafford Smith Joseph Biggs John Page Geo. Storey John Briggs Thomas Dunklin Hugh Cameron Clapham White Miss Dutton AdUe-street William Pollock Newry Ireland Miss Clark George Clark Lombard Dundee William Stirling Pittendreeh Iley Manace T.‘ Smith G. Sael Newcastle Strand Burkett J. de St. Marie Dr. Watts Morocco Sael

Obituary notices from Monday to Tuesday in England

A disjointed set of death notices lists William Law of Ely aged 77 once a Harthargh merchant in Sun Court Lon, Col George Sinclair ex 6th Regiment at Kensington, Mr Charles Lindegren merchant in Dunstan Court, and Mrs Denne widow of John Denne formerly partner with Sir Benjamin Tryeman, with locations including Middlesex Northamptonshire and Watford.

Hewitt Brombeen Middlesex King’s Clif Northamptonshre Wittiam Law Ely Sun Court Cornhwl Loingdon Kensington George Sinclair Dunstan “Court Mincing -Lane Charles Lindegren Charles Lindegren,a merchant.—Mionday Night Watford Denne John Denne Benjamin Tryeman

Bayley and Lowe advertise Hemets Essence of Pearl

Perfumers in Cockspur Street announce that Hemet’s Essence of Pearl and Pearl Centi Frice will continue to be prepared as in life and sold wholesale and retail at their shop and at subscriptions at Mr Newbery’s warehouse and other outlets. Prices listed with stamps included. Labels warn that only genuine Nouge with Bayley and Lowe markings are authentic.

Bayley and Lowe Cockspur-Street Hemet Cockspur-strest James Brandi Kayla Chaydheyard Rao London Stes Panta Aree Lea

Medicine and the noble endorsement for Spilsbury's remedy in 1790

A 1790 notice by Francis Spilsbury, Soho Square, extols a medicine praised for seventeen years in relieving diverse disorders. It claims public confidence, affordable care for rich and poor, and safety with no confinement. The advertisement asserts cures in scurvy, gout, ulcers, eruptions, and numerous ailments, urging trust and continued patronage.

Francis Spilsbury Chymist Soho Square

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