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Newspaper

London Evening Post

Location

London, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Date

Aug 26, 1762

Page

3

Druid sails with dispatches and fleet actions unfold

From Plymouth the sloop Druid carried dispatches to Sir Edward Hawke at Torbay and returned. the Douglass packet back at Falmouth after mainmast damage in a gale while Hermione, built at Cadiz, prompted naval caution. Military promotions, appointments, and public notices follow including a Lord Westmoreland death and local storm damage reports.

England Newfoundland Druid Plymouth Sir Edward Hawke Torbay Earl of Sth Regiment of Foot Studholme Hodgson William Boyde 114Th Regiment of Foot 54Th Regiment of Foot de Burts Ebenezer Kirkpatrick Marines Boyde Francis Marsh Royal Regiment of English Fuzileers Regiment of Foot Cloudesly William Mackay 763D Regiment of Foot Oswald Robert Irwin 76Th Regiment of Foot Col Trapaud Ensign Cunningham Robert Donken William Ruffel Martinique Thomas Sheldon John Christopher 17Th Regiment of Foot Fort Royal Hland Mereworth Maidstone Kent John Fane Earl of Westmoreland le Despenser Burghersh Caherbugh Ireland Universty Oxford Thomas Earl of Arran University of Oxford Duke of Marlborough Gilbert Negus Sandon Hertfordshire Haslemere Surrey Wheeler Goswell Street Fuller Rose and Crown Hounslow London Turnham Green

Curious Clerkenwell Birth of Horned Child

A Clerkenwell parish birth reports a child born with abnormal features: mouth at the neck nape eyes on the forehead and horns on the head after the mother was frightened by a cow. The infant is alive but has received no sustenance since birth.

Clerkenwell Parish

Jesuits Drops and War News Fragment Amid Turmoil

An 18th century advertisement extols Dr Walker's Jesuit Drops as a cure for seminal weaknesses, with distribution notes across London and port towns. The page also includes letters debating Newfoundland loss, British command by native generals versus foreigners, and public notices from correspondents on urban changes and street widening.

Lowe Bible and Crown Fleet-Lane Old Baily Mackinder King-street St. James’s Square Horton Portsmouth Brown Bristol Jordan Plymouth-Dock Brice and Spencer Score Exeter Ize J. Wessels and Co. N.B Dr. Walker Egland Scotland America

Peace and war talk from London on empire and Europe

London reports discuss Indian alliances near Carolina and the need to seize Louisiana to secure lasting peace. A Dutch warship engagement in the Downs follows governs, with observations on British French talks, German peace hopes, and Prussian related maneuvers. A Vienna dispatch celebrates Austrian bravery against Prussia. Notes from Altena and Windsor livestock and horse racing events round out the item.

London Carolina Louisiana Downs Francfert Jug Great Britain France Germany Britain Spain Portugal Ratisbon Saxony Prussia Vienna Kefhorn Reicheneberg Altena George of Holstein de Wolfand de Rumohr Seelhorst Danizick Russia Holstein iSiel John Walter Efa3 Forest of Windsor Berks Brenitweed

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