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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Aug 10, 1797
Page
1
The East India House committees of Saiprine in England invite written sealed proposals for supplying copper work. Tenderers must state the lowest prices. Contracts viewable at Mr. Coggan’s office. Tenders must be delivered before noon on the specified day, with no late entries accepted.
Friday notes from Verona and Venice report royal quiet on dispatches from Lord Malmesbury while European turmoil grows. Roederer Ro MC warns against arms and urges calm. Roederer and Republican Francais leaders urge restraint as France’s Directory clashes with the Council of Five Hundred. Coast defense strengthens with Lord Cathcart given command. private gossip recounts a Duke de Villa Real affair. Militia reviews at Dover, local obits, races, and a Fleet prison death follow a racquet dispute. Amherst funeral ends with simple ceremony.
Their Majesties hosted a card party at the Lodge last night and commanded four boats for this evening. Notable guests include Mr Barrymore, Mr Knight, Miss Barnett, and London theatre visitors from Bath and York. They intended to go to sea today but a fresh breeze altered plans. the King rode to the Cavalry Camp instead.
The Sans Pareille reached Spithead while Admiral Duncan’s fleet lies at anchor near the Texel. Rear-Admiral Sir Roger Curtis’s squadron ships are expected at Spithead once wind shifts. Resource has arrived with Jamaica’s convoy bound for the River, and Prince, Curtis, and Formidable pressed toward Goodwin Sands for Portsmouth. Harpy and Fairy sloops cruise, remaining in the Downs with accompanying ships as wind shifts west-southwest.
The green list shows fifteen vessels from Jamaica docking yesterday including Trelawney Blake Hater Harvey Hebe Honnywill Europa Friendship Thatcher Flora Baker Hanover Planter Pritchard Bacchus Hamilton Simon Taylor Summers Ocean Jolly Martha Brae Birch Vul can Baxter Hercules Powell Milford Williams George Scott. They import 6046 hogsheads of sugar 113 barrels of rum 662 puncheons of rum and 109 hogsheads of rum. Crops this year are abundant with ships full averaging over 409 hogsheads each plus rum and c.
Mr Browne, a Cumberland native and famed traveller, is returning home after detailing the Temple of Jupiter Ammon and explorations in Libya Abyssinia and interior Africa. Lewes recorded 19 prisoners with one death sentence, Prince of Wales visiting, a mill accident injuring John Tobitt, and a miraculous rescue near Borwath Sussex of a girl entangled by a mill twist.
A man finds a woman floating in Hyde Park’s Serpentine River with her hand locked in her husband’s. The couple, a tutor from Grosvenor Square, are carried to Chelsea. In a separate incident near Wandsford, a York Mail Coach spring breaks, prompting a dangerous chase as passengers and guard restrain runaway horses across a bridge and up a hill.
Irish lottery draws announce prizes with numbers 24951 2000 prize 20138 1600 prize 16927 1000 prize.
Sporting intelligence notes a Silver Cup card featuring horses Sweet Willy and Blatt A Sweepstakes of rags. Other entries include Twig on Lloyd's Dealer, Woburn Lass, Cockney, Sweet Lips and Polly White Nose in various stakes. Runners listed by owner and trainer names indicate a busy Wednesday program on August 2.
A London advertisement extols Spilsbury Antiscorbutic Drops as a cure for scurvy gout rheumatism ulcers and other blood and digestion related ailments. It notes a twenty six year reputation and claims worldwide testimony. The medicine is sold at Soho Square Dispensary and by patent medicine sellers in bottles priced 6s and 2s 6d, with post-paid inquiries.
Married notices include J Everthead of Ballborough in Sussex to Whis E King of Locksweed while George Sandby weds Miss Willett in Ipswich and W Kemp a Bath grocer marries Hannah Fox. Deaths record Mrs Agnes Ogilvy of Pitfour, Mrs Forbes Anne Turing wife of Reverend Archibald Bruce, and Mrs Lilias Crawford widow of Robert Lee. Lady Augusta Elizabeth Ritchie of Winchelsea and Nottingham and Mrs Sunnetty Burnett of Strand.
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