28 Aug 1739
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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Aug 28, 1739
Page
1
Since our last arriv’d the Mail from France. The notice cites dispatches and weather or maritime notes typical of a late 18th to early 19th century London newspaper update, listing arrivals and brief items without detail.
Extract from a Petersbourg letter records a grand royal wedding in Bruns wick Lunebourg Wolfem buule and Princess Anne of Mecklembourg. High dress and splendor impressed observers, with English Factory gentlemen paying congratulations and the prince inviting English subjects to regard him as their countryman. The narrative shifts to military reports from Peterwaradin and Belgrade, detailing Ottoman siege preparations, Danube crossings, and Wallis and Leher commands amid waning Turkish momentum. News from Vienna, Hamburg, and Paris follow, noting royal entertainments, Bourbon dynamics, and European war jitters.
In Edinburgh yesterday a young student walking near the castle grounds attempted a scramble to the gun holes on the north east side. He was captured and examined, found not a man of war or Spanth interest, but a whimsical divine, and was dismissed amid much conversation.
The August Affizes concluded in the city and county with Thomas Gullilee convicted of horse stealing and sentenced to death. Earlier in the session two more individuals were found guilty of capital offenses and received death sentences, including William.
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