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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Dec 07, 1775
Page
1
Gloucester notices announce a publication of The Roman History from the Building of Rome to the Ruin of the Commonwealth by N Hook and company. The ad promotes volumes to complete a gentleman's library set with multiple London publishers listed and a variant eleven volume edition.
Friday December 8 London reports an express from America to Lord Germaine confirming a battle between American forces and King’s troops. Other items note Admiral Sir Charles Saunders’s death, a New England vessel seized for mortars and bayonets, and French neutrality amid war. A journal from 1759 quotes delays in supplying funds to the army and French ships attempting to sail to Quebec but frozen in by early winter.
Reports from Plymouth Gull and Gosport describe ships fitted for sea amid manning shortages. Transports depart for Ireland with troops and provisions for America while Ligaments and court cases unfold. A verdict favors James Chiswell over James Slaugh in a harsh assault on a China voyage. Public notices cover lottery theft and watchman murder. Marriages and deaths listed in Dublin and Edinburgh notices.
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