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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Aug 08, 1741
Page
1
Reports from Petersbourg Paris and Vienna describe royal births and military mobilizations. The Grand Duchess Regent delivered a Princess while armies gather near Kaikau Glatz and Czenstochow. News from Passau Ulm and Dunkirk note Bavarian occupation, Swedish Russia tensions, and a looming balance of power. Admiral Haddock blocks Cadiz and prize captures accompany court diplomacy and the death of Mary Anne Bourvon Conde.
Dublin report from Saturday last records new Wheat at 208 per Barrel. Stravase reports beef and mutton fed at three half-pence per pound and oatmeal six pence per g lb in Feck, barley five shillings per barrel. From Cloniwell, 19 prisoners convicted at Allizes, including Mara and two sons, for a murder near Moly Cross six months ago.
Henry Crack confessed before execution that he, with James Garnham and Francis Knights, robbed Gardener Mr Howard of Parham years ago and that three others jailed at Ipswich were innocent. He denied wounding Sir Thomas Spring, though Knights and Garnham allegedly claimed involvement.
A Paris to London letter reports the Cardinal's political barometer dropping in London and Versailles, predicting a storm of great fury. Observers note fluctuations at D-w- g Street and claim the French forecasts claim France made the barometer to differ from London. Accords say French declarations are ready for publication and privateers are being outfitted at Dunkirk and St Malo as reprisals loom against England.
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