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Newspaper
General Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Oct 03, 1775
Page
4
A large respectable meeting of gentlemen merchants and traders of London held at the King’s Arms Tavern to consider an address memorial and petition to His Majesty regarding the alarming state of public affairs.
London merchants and townsfolk present addresses to the king on the American situation. Gloucester, Warwick and London merchants join in urging royal action amid the colonies dispute. Dispatches report naval movements, troop promotions, supply orders, and foreign envoys as Britain weighs strategy.
Wheat prices fell in Gairsborough and Chesterfield cheese and Whitechapel hay and straw ranged in weekly markets. Presentations in Cornwall and to Hon. Henry Hobart received Great Seal approval. A burglary near Moorfields led to a pistol threat. Lottery tickets advertised. robberies and muggings reported near Chertsey and Kennington. fires in Cloth Fair. marriages in Kensington and Covent Garden. deaths in Leeds. a Wakefield shooting tragedy with a fatal misfire among youths.
The Committee of Shipping of the United Company of Merchants of England trading to the East Indies advertises that on Wednesday next they will receive written tenders for supplying anchors cordage beef pork flour gunpowder masts spars malt spirits pitch tar shot and shells steel Swedish iron and canvass. Proposals must be lowest price and delivered by 2 o’clock in the afternoon. Also notices a patent tincture claim for toothache and scurvy cure with vendor locations and prices.
London Bridge water levels listed for tomorrow with tides at 3 and 12 hours after noon and again after midnight plus an 8 hour interval after 1 in the afternoon. The note records high water forecasts for the upcoming day at the river crossing.
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