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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Aug 26, 1762
Page
2
Racing calendar for Monday October 4 1762 outlines purses of one hundred guineas for open horses and various weights for four to six year olds at Beacon Course. Entries due Saturday before running with age certificates and three fees. subsequent days feature multiple sweeps matches and royal plates.
The Maidenhead races schedule three purse events from September 6 to 8 on Maidenhead Thicket Berks including a forty mile heat, two mile heats and a four mile length. Entries close August 30 at the Sun Inn Maidenhead with fees to be paid. Also an August 1 auction at Crown Inn Basingstoke offers Ewhurst Manor and three farms with timber and coppice woodland amid a productive rural district.
Aug 9 reports Konigberg announces Field Marshal Lehndorff as Governor General after arriving. Woyekow proclaims renewed peace under Prussian rule and freed oath to Catherine. July siege near Custrin. Cossacks block passage while three disguised nobles reconnoiter near Oder. Schweidnitz batteries active. Holstein Gottorp rumor. Denmark seizure rumors. Vienna reports engagement near Wenstein with 354 enemy captured or wounded.
Dispatches report General Klieft’s failed assault on the Prince of Lowenstein, with him retreating to Einfiedel to join Prince Henry’s force. In Douay a fire destroyed the Carmelite Convent and much of the church after nine o’clock in the evening. Paris notes ships Fier and two frigates sail from Toulon to join Bompart off Minorca. Ireland prorogues parliament to April next. several colonels appointed. In Scotland a mail post-boy theft case surfaces with the Aberdeen bag theft and a separate housebreaking theft handled by Catharine Anderson.
London dispatches describe Prussia defeating Austrian forces under Beck and Laudohn at Schweidnitz, with heavy casualties and captured colors. Additional notices mention unrest in Russia, French movements toward Franconia, and Gottingen taken after fortifications blown. Reports from Constantinople note plagues and noble births, while Russia renounces imperial rule. London also notes Oxford congratulating the Prince of Wales and British regiments remaining in North America.
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