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Newspaper

General Evening Post

Location

London, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Date

Sep 17, 1774

Page

4

Fragmentary Notice Highlights Local Names and Deaths in London

Fragmentary OCR lists several London figures including Mrs Cranston and Captain Sutton, with brief biographical scraps. Mentions a silk mercer, a fruiterer, a haberdasher, and a doctor practicing in Cheshire. The text notes a death and a fever following an injury at an neighbour's, plus other scattered names and places.

Fottel Lincoln’s Inn Excheqter Audley-street Hammond Kingston Jatpaica Captain Sutton Philadelphia Sumtleworth Stockwort Cheshire Edmund Watson Thornton Long-Acre

Afflicted notes on a suicide and public notices

A letter from Sep 57 reports a young man found hanging in his lodgings after a note hinted at romantic betrayal. A woman who visited the scene attempted suicide yet survived, and the entry shares varied local notices from London including theatre updates, drownings, robberies, and market prices. The piece also mentions emigration, a mayoral election, and parliamentary plans of William Cunningham.

Horzorn Rendell Society For the Recovery of London Pzech Blackfriars Aquakies St. John’s Lane Smithfeld Marybone-fields Wis Cornhill Hoynflow-heath Mr. Chambers Fhifman Fetor Deford Paissan Bendlain Oxford-beer Howse Birmingham Richard Eaves Rowell Gloucester Esy Miss Southwell Athiey Worceter Hardwick Shrewbury Thomas Powys Eig Berwick Shrewsbury Messrs, Fretwell and Co Royal Exchange Edinburgh William Cunningham, Bart Wes Lothian

Foreign Intelligence from Hamenaca and Paris

Reports from Hamenaca claim Austria’s hereditary dominions will end torture as a cruel device. Versailles and London are said to work together to reestablish understanding between Spain and Portugal, with hopes mediation will succeed. In Paris the son of Mademoiselle de now te Abbé de Bourbon was presented to the King and received affection, likely to obtain the abbey of Gefvres and the reversion of St Germain des Prés.

Hamenaca House of Austria Verfailles London Spain Portugal Paris Mademoiselle de

Portmouth Dispatches and Royal Movements Abroad

Dispatches reach Lord Portmouth from Sir Basil Keith about Privy Council matters. Marquis of Carmarthen and his Lady arrive after Geneva trip. Letters from Stockholm report abundant harvest and low prices. Vienna notes Emperor’s response to public walks crowding with “inferior people” and Prater access.

Don Lord Portmouth Basil Keith Jamaica Yeterday Marquis of Carmarthen Geneva Holdemnede Stockholm Vienna

Prices of CORN and grains at the Corn Exchange

Market prices from the Corn Exchange list grains and related goods with figures for corn barley oats and flour including new and old quarters and multiple varieties and quantities specified in shillings and pence per quarter and per fack

Prices of Stocks This Afternoon at One OClock

The afternoon stock report shows Bank Stock at 3 percent, various Indian and South Sea mentions with percent figures, and old annuities, bonds, and Bank Long Ann rates listed. The fragment includes figures like 86% and 74 percent for Indian items and 34 percent for the South Sea, with miscellaneous notes on government bonds and tickers.

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