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Newspaper
General Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Oct 12, 1771
Page
3
A report from Berlin notes a bar rack collapse burying many and Gen Taunzien arresting Le Febvre the engineer commander. Le Febvre died by self-inflicted wounds after being disarmed. Also from HanoverQueen Victoria’s minister Behr oversees aid distribution amid famine high prices and a commission to seek remedies.
An extract from a Connecticut gentleman to a friend extols Col. Tryon for supporting government in America. It claims Western Indians killed four Cherokees and lauds Tryon as pivotal to quelling a supposed universal revolt, crediting him with preventing a collapse of colonial authority.
In Oxford on October 12 and Portsmouth on October 13, reports recount a local university event and a naval accident. A mayor nominates a candidate for Vice-Chancellor for the coming year, while a marine officer aboard a cutter from Gotport perishes after his boat capsizes.
A long, garbled ship arrival notice lists numerous passengers and origins including Maryland, Jamaica, Cape Fear, Virginia, and Cape Coast. The fragment names captains, ships, and routes such as Friendship, Latham, and Empress Ruma, with many surnames and ports barely readable.
A Jamaica Gazette extract reports suffering of a subject named Anthony, jailed at St Jago de Calis after capture aboard Induiry bound for Cuba. He endured flogging and mutilation, was moved to work, then released, with later remarks on hospitality shown to the late Duke of York during his travels in Italy.
A wry mix of diplomatic dispatches from The Hague and Paris reports, ship movements, and local incidents. The piece notes Prince of Wales and a potential envoy, arrivals of Rev Dr Richardson, and a range of harbor and coastal events, robberies, marriages, deaths, and social notices.
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