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Newspaper
General Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Oct 14, 1773
Page
3
In Rome on October 16 foreign affairs report that Nettuno authorities halted a grain laden bark. It had been purchased and ferried out against a papal prohibition. The Pope ordered prosecution of those involved and directed the cargo be retained by the officers who seized it.
Amid anxious port news the Clermont packet is late from Sept 28 due here. The Sally of Cowes arriving after foundering off Ark low with crew aboard. Lord Newnham and family reach Dublin from Holyhead. Mr Hatton dies near Castlewellan. John Jones dies aged 102 in Mayo. Cornwall packet Webb lost but to Milford. Deane elected Burgess for Baltimore. Mary Sullivan and Mary Smith executed at Gallows-green for murder.
A historical ship notice dated October 14 lists vessels arriving at and departing from multiple ports. Ships include Charming Molly Blue from the Straights Tobago Planter Farr from Tobago Wentworth Sam oa from New York Friendship Kennedy from St Vincent’s Scipio Kirkmatt for Teneriffe Elizabeth Brown for Virginia Thames Laird for Jamaica Bar badoes Planter Blackburn for Barbadoes Boston Packet Shephard for Boston Molly Jackson for Liverpool Mercury Sowerby for Whitehaven Gravesean passed by the Devonshire Watt from Barcelona Alive Frampton from Quebec Arrivals at ports include Viaha Betsey Winning from Newfoundland North Carolina Richard and footing Mace from Plymouth Grenadés Plymouth Lyons Jove from Havre de Grace Yarmouth Road Duke of Gloucester Sutherland from Bamburgh Dover Eleanor Oswald from Antigua Falmouth Royal William Bruce Union Lee and Breadnought Rapell from Malaga Dartmouth Lady's Adventure Creighton from Barbadoes Portsmouth Hanbury Hyrtle from Barbadoes.
Letters from The Hague report that Oldenburg and Delmenhorst will be ceded to the Grand Duke of Russia in exchange for Holstein with Commissaries to reside in Oldenburg Castle. The Danish consul notes gifts to the Emperor of Morocco and a royal appointment for Miss Cathcart as a Maid of Honour. Other items include sensational thefts, highwayman notices, a royal pardon, and a long observational essay on growth and lifespan across animals and fishes.
A fragmented 18th century page promotes books and medical wares. It lists The British Spouter or Stage Assistant with prologues and epilogues, a General Gazetteer by R Brookes, and Rectoral Lozenges of Tolu. Publishers and sellers include J Roson, J Shepherd, T Lewis, and others in London.
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