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Newspaper
General Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Sep 22, 1748
Page
3
A faded notice states the item will be sold until Parliament setting. It signals a period publication with the price noted as three shillings.
Dispatches from Warsaw and Aix la Chapelle report a major shift in Constantinople with the Grand Seignior dethroned and a nephew installed. Tartars reject the Porte chosen ruler, electing another. Conferences in Aix hear Imperial terms for peace, with dispatches to Vienna Madrid and Turin. Couriers from Madrid Turin Genoa suggest an alliance among Bourbon Savoy Genoa.
The letters report ongoing European power plays with Sardinia, a thwarted young Pretender attack, and English naval build‑ups. Marquis Saxe delayed from Brussels. mistrust over a London demand for removal. Paris and Liege dispatches note French troops occupying Limburg, Maestricht garrison evacuations, and Cumberland winter plans. Count de Lippe-Schaumbourg dies. Vienna express on definitive treaty obstacles.
A porter's fall in Cheapside injures him fatally, a cart accident in Newington Road kills a man, and Mr. Clardon the chemist marries Miss Redmain of HAMMERSMITH. Obituaries note Thomas Marden's death in Holborn and a tribute on Sir John Mason's memory. Naval movements report Sheerness and the Friendship sailing for Leghorn, with Grampus in the Downs. Also printed are verse and commentary on dying words, an epitaph for Mason, and stock exchange notices with prices and transfers.
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