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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Aug 31, 1758
Page
2
A detailed critique questions whether hospital revenues are truly free from tax and properly distributed to the poor. It notes clerical inquiries into endowments by bishops and rails at master misappropriation while urging guardians to uphold founders' designs. Reports also cover military news, ship captures, and local incidents amid ongoing war reporting.
A meeting of the Trustees for repairing the turnpike from Basingstone Hill in Surrey to Powder Mills on Hounflw Heath in Middlesex is scheduled for Tuesday the 5th of September at ten o'clock in the forenoon at the Buflo nn at Stanes.
The document details how a patient may be admitted to the General Hospital at Bath. It requires a local physician to describe the case including age and symptoms, plus a poverty certificate, sent in a franked letter to the hospital register. Soldiers may submit a commanding officer certificate but must describe the case and provide three pounds caution. A parish certificate and leave are required before travel, and the caution money funds return upon discharge or burial. Poor applicants misusing entry will be treated as poners and denied admission.
Bristol September 1758 notice invites nobility and gentry to visit the White Lion Inn and Tavern in Broad Street newly fitted with best accommodations. Latham Church promises courteous service to guests or command offerings. Continues wholesale sale from vaults of wines Arrack French brandy Jamaica rum at low prices.
From Providence we learn that the master of the privateer sloop recently captured by Capt Angel is the same man who served as second lieutenant of the Le Amerique privateer. He aided the Jamaica Packer fight, was mutilated when captured, and now lies confined in Providence Gaol awaiting punishment. The captain who led the privateer was killed and the first lieutenant sent away. Scotland news notes Dover’s 40 guns cruising near Aberdeen for six weeks and a Danish privateer seizure off Orkney, plus the Earl of Dundonald’s death passing honours to Thomas Cochrane.
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