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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Apr 07, 1744
Page
1
Notices from Canes in Provence report marches toward Nice and Montauban and plans to cross the Var River with two lines of battle while English frigates harass coastal fronts. Reports from Bologna, Vienna, Francfort, and The Hague describe strategic retreats, neutral army plans, and diplomatic efforts as European powers maneuver amid ongoing hostilities.
An April 31 dispatch reports a transport sailing to Parkgate with 115 soldiers and four officers on board collided with a man of war, left bowsprit and foremast sail, later safe to the Isle of Man. Duke of Devonshire orders another ship to ferry troops. An Armagh letter notes Downe militia warranting 16,000 Protestant inhabitants summoned, but no action yet.
Edinburgh report notes a three in the morning fire in Dunfermline that spread from a Heather stack to the roof of John Graham Tanner's house. The flames consumed the building and his furniture, clothes, leather, and other effects, leaving the family ruinous but the occupants saved with difficulty.
On Thursday last the County Infirmary for the reception of sick and lame poor was opened in Northampton with a formal procession led by the Earl of Northampton and carryings in by the mayor and gentry. A sermon by Rev Dr Grey blessed the occasion and a collection of 41 16 1d was taken at the church door. Several poor were admitted after examination as proper objects of charity, and the event drew many gentlemen and ladies in orderly conduct.
A London report hopes that the postwar increase in French trade will not shift the balance of privateering as much as before. It cites expectations from the Lords of the Admiralty and notes a supposed victory over the Spaniards in the County of Nice as premature, by modern police phrasing.
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