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Newspaper
General Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Oct 15, 1771
Page
3
Quoted verse on life and death contrasts with theatrical critique of a 18th century play. It covers the theme of mortality and riches, then shifts to commentary on cast performances, miscostuming, and scene omissions. The piece lists actors and distant port arrivals, reflecting a newspaper notice of theater and travel items.
A list of arrivals and departures shows ships like New Elizabeth Manley and Liberty Clod George Saunders sailing from Virginia and St Kitts to rivers and Seville and Jamaica. Additional vessels include Catherine Catheil from Maryland and Friends Goodwin Nicolson from Archangel. Arrivals include Mary and Elizabeth Pratchel at Rochfort, and Mogadove at Cady.
The paper reports royal progress from Richmond to St James's with a levee and theatre outing, then details amid international diplomacy a Vienna mediated partition plan involving Russia Austria Prussia and Saxony with Poland. A South Carolina duel ends fatally between Dr John Haly and Peter De Lancey, and various murder, windstorm and crime notes accompany local court and shipping news from October.
The column lists executions of five sailors and two pickpockets near the gallows, with moral commentary. It records a petition for a hanged woman who suffered with fortitude. Also reported are clerical appointments, marriages, births, and several deaths across London and nearby towns, with names and places such as Red Lion Street Whitechapel Curzon Street May Fair and Somerset.
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