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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Dec 05, 1738
Page
1
From Madrid on November 18, the writer notes little discussion of differences between this Court and Great Britain. The Court awaits the courier delivering Britannic Majesty's answer to alterations made in several articles of the Preliminary Convention signed at London. The courier is impatiently expected.
Letters from Newport describe the 1736 tragedy of the Dolphin voyage from Cape François to Rhode Island. Commander Dechereau and his mate were slain by French crewman Peter Legrand and others. a boy was cast overboard by order, with two English passengers coerced to aid. The sloop later wrecked near Block Island as a suspected plot to conceal the killings.
Affected crew and two English passengers were arrested and taken to Newport for examination and gaol. French crewmen remain in irons. Named detainees include Peter Legrand Peter Jaffeau Francis Bowcoin John Couprey Thomas Davis and John Merchant. Cargo reportedly centers on wines brandy and molasses with most salvageable. authorities secure it for disposition.
Dublin reports a Saturday morning clash at Groom-Porters leaving two wounded but safe. Letters from Limerick note Affaflins tied to Lieut. Hume murderers jailed. Jamaica dispatch claims a Spanish pirate to be tried. captains reported healthy. Speedwell sunk near 41N 48W with crew rescued. Williams Cunningham leaves substantial bequests to hospital and Dublin parish poor.
Gloucester December news reports violent Weavers in Melksham Wiltshire causing widespread warning. Clothiers ordered full wages and no truck. Damage near 50001. Rioters fled, officials pursued. additional troops arrived from Bristol and Salisbury to Trowbridge.
A London section reports on a general council meeting at St James's to review Buchanan’s murder conviction at the Old Bailey, royal entertainments and gifts, warnings of war rumours in Smyrna, a fire at Symonds’s Turpentine Warehouse, royal grants to Dublin schools, Windsor and Bath happenings, Georgia and Maryland dispatches, marriages in St. Paul’s and Guildhall, and political appointments in the Treasury with staff changes and office surrender at Soho Square.
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