05 Oct 1776
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Newspaper
General Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Oct 05, 1776
Page
1
The issue reports Halifax price controls for pork mutton veal lamb and poultry with caps. local officials ordered enforcement. It also carries letters from Philadelphia and Jamaica, noting a potential American war stance, storms, ship captures, and naval movements. plus local births deaths marriages and legal notices from Cambridge and London.
Berlin notes death of Mons de Bulow a Lieute nant-General and Knight of the Black Eagle after a brief illness. From Hamburg advices, Prince Peter Frederick Lewis of Holstein Gottorp elected coadjutor bishop. A warrant issued to elect a Burgess for Horsham Parliament in place of Jeremiah Dyson, fourteen days after notice in the Gazette.
Panizick reports from Sept 20 that Poland may challenge the city flour trade privilege by seeking export and free import rights, threatening Thorn’s longstanding import restriction. Vienna notes an upcoming Austrian Polish commerce ordinance fixing duties on trade, and on Sept 27 Lord Stormont was presented to the King with high honors.
Shipping news lists arrivals at multiple ports with vessels from Portsea Newfoundland and Liverpool. Names include Speedwell Hawkins from Newfoundland and John and Richard Merriton from Senegal and Bonny from Africa. Also mentions Thetis Dunlop from Quebec and Marquis of Granby Grouch from Rotterdam and several brigs from Bristol.
The king and queen spent about two hours at Lord North's Rushy estate and are due in town next week. Bend Talbot’s house by the upper Palace Hill at Windsor is being torn down for rebuild under Sir William Chambers plan approved by Their Majesties. The new construction is expected to be completed by the end of May.
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