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Newspaper
General Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Oct 05, 1776
Page
3
Paris announces Paris and Swiss Cantons seek a new treaty. The cantons plan the first conference at Baden on the 28th, with Vergennes invited as minister plenipotentiary to assist.
Sunday afternoon a timber merchant’s wife was seized near a stable in College Street. A man strangled her with a rope, stole her pocket contents and blue silk petticoat, then severed the neck cord. He signaled intent against her husband before fleeing. A separate report notes a public whipping in Romsey for an impostor who claimed to be driven from Boston by General Washington while begging in various guises.
Ship news lists arrivals and departures with crews and destinations. Vessels such as Prospect Nor wood Chacming Harrist Doughy Peters burzii and Providentia travel from Europe while ships like Hopeve Gregory and Elizabeth Ridderwold reach Poole and Plymouth from Norway and Oporto.
London dispatches report receipts from Lord Stor mont at Versailles, with summons issued for a Privy Council at St James's on the morrow fortnight. News from Corke says the Friendship, Capt Lumbey from New York, arrived there and London was informed. Jamaica reports the tender Lurcher 16 guns taken near Port au Prince by an American privateer. A Madrid letter notes 56 pieces of cannon from Cadiz to America aboard the frigate Don Diego. The Ann, Capt Duncan from Dominica to London, was captured by an American privateer in August. A Hague letter dated Oct 1 mentions a renewal memorial to renew the Placard prohibiting arms to rebels in America.
Extracts report ships arriving on Africa coast buying slaves, many armed amid fears of American interference. A Rotterdam letter details a Cape of Good Hope dispute where Hottentots executed a killer by fire, later staging a mock execution with Dutch complicity. Also noted: royalty visits and small local crimes and market drops in Wiltshire and London districts.
A crowded York-era column reports highway robbery by a mounted thief near Fair-Mead Bottom, a single-horse chaise collision in Parliament Street causing a woman's death, and the escape of 34 convicts from transport near Limehouse. It notes royal pardon for John Bennet alias Cade, church dispensations, Trinity-house elections, birth and multiple marriages, and a string of deaths including Dr. Rethan and John Winter with brief obituaries.
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