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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Apr 05, 1740
Page
1
Madrid dispatches March 21 note the Court orders eight warships to Cadiz ready for sea. Czarist and British talks, neutral Portugal policy, and ministers to attend two courts. Reports from Hamburg and Naples discuss potential Russo-British peace and Corsica troop movements. Letters from Madrid, Berlin, Rome, and Leghorn cover port defenses, troop reinforcements, Jewish migration to Naples, and Porto Bello dispute.
Dublin reports Duke of Devonshire grants royal assent to several bills and prorogues Parliament to May 12. Cork cites John Fleming condemned for participation in the killing and mutilation of the Unity of Southampton. Capt. Lambert dies in London. John Leadwell hanged and gibbeted at Clonmel. Redmond Morres marries Miss Lodge, a heiress of 10,000.
Edinburgh April 3 letters record the death of Alexander Cunningham brother to the Earl of Glencairn. He died of fever at Porto Bello after taking that place while lieutenant in an independent Jamaica company. The Earl of Hopton is chosen Governor of the Bank of Scotland in place of the late Earl of Marchmont. Also noted is the death of David Henderson of Tannocha fide leaving an estate of about Fool a year to his three year old son. The Lady of Sir William Gordon of Invergordon died, daughter of Hamilton of Hallcraig, late Lords of Golffion, in the north.
Bristoll April 5 last week ended in Gloucester with sentences of death for Benjamin Fletcher known as Pat Morgan's Son and William Lewis two new recruits both convicted of assaulting and robbing. Latcham and John Purchers ordered to trial for breaking into Edward Reed's house and taking items. Charles Jones sentenced for stealing a dark brown male.
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