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Newspaper
General Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Sep 05, 1771
Page
3
A 4 ANE C-D OF E. addressed to the ladies. Jonia boasted of weaving a fine tapestry worth £4 and claimed great fall and ingenuity in the work. A Lacedaemonian matron then showed her four sons noted for learning probity and good manners, saying such works deserve praise from a woman of honour.
Reports from Amsterdam and The Hague recount Russian advances in Crimea and the Danube area. Selim Guerev renounces the Porte's protection, Crimea fortresses fall under Russian control, and British and French dispatches note powder threats and harvest optimism amid European tensions. A Portsmouth inquiry into a Portsmouth dockyard fire yields limited findings along with various public notices.
Yesterday arrived in this town her Grace the Duchess of Northumberland and the Right Hon Earl Percy, attended by several gentlemen of distinction. We hear from Nairn that on the 27th ult a Cromarty boat was cast away there, all the crew saved except Air John Grant, an Excise officer at Cromarty, who perished due to frailty.
On the 24th ult at about four in the morning a sharp quake shook Aitbury and surrounding areas. Several witnesses felt bedframes tremble and other minor disturbances inside houses. The tremor lasted about three seconds and was widely noted across the county.
Dr Henry Pemberton, professor of physic at Gregan College and Royal Society fellow, appears in a fragmentary note about an author’s manuscript. James Wilson, M.D., is listed as publisher in London with reference to J Nourse.
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