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Newspaper
General Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Oct 23, 1790
Page
3
From Warsaw to Vienna and Berlin reports detail ongoing Polish succession discussions with Saxony as a potential kingmaker, while the Diet debates guarantees and neighboring powers’ consent. Dispatches note troop movements, naval plans, and political shifts across Europe, including French ministerial changes, British Atlantic warnings, and imperial deliberations.
An announcement proclaims a supply of new halfpennies arriving, issued at a respectable retail shop. The coin bears the Saint of Scotland and City Arms with EpinsurGcH HALFPENNY, created to ease the coin shortage felt by traders and the poor. officials hope broad use and benefits will follow.
In Oxford last week Lord Morpeth son of the Earl of Carlisle and Lord Hothkind, son of the late Lord Holland, entered Christ Church. Fergus Graham of Magdalen College received a Bachelor in Civil Law and Thomas Taylor of St Pe...gs College gained a Civil Law degree. In Portsmouth a Court Martial on the Royal William acquitted Lieut Bliszh, a midshipman, boatswain and others of the Boursty armed ship for its loss at Otaheite. The carpenter faced sedition and disobedience charges and was reprimanded. The court included Admirals Barrington, Roddam, Jervis, Hood, and Hotham with Sir Roger Curtis Rae, Onslow. The note adds that eleven Admirals sat, possibly twelve, due to Curtis's rank.
London reports that yesterday the Duke of Gloucester had an interview with the King at Windsor Lodge. On the accession anniversary, the Royal Family received compliments from several neighbouring nobility. Early in the morning, one of the King's messengers…
A scathing note on the Memoirs of Barrington published for M. Smith at Fleet Street, denouncing the work as extraordinary for deception and likening it to the lives of Price and Semple. It cites a trio of Barringtons and questions authenticity while praising the author James now in Westphalia.
Tuomas Vicon successor to Benjamily Piper advertises Porable Soup for the Majesty's Navy. He claims to produce beef, mutton, veal, and chicken soups in "Gekes" marked Progr. Requests customers to seek the original Porable Soup Manufactory at Golden Head Three Kings-court Fleet-street. Sold by appointment in Liverpool Bristol Portmouth and Porthmouth parade.
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