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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Dec 10, 1747
Page
1
Reports from Petersbourg and Stockholm describe princely arrivals, treaties, and military movements across Europe, with Vienna facing clergy tax needs. Genoa and Leghorn note British naval prizes and Austrian troops, while Paris hints at Dutch reprisals and notable court visits. Ireland reports elections, privy privateers, shipwrecks, and a deadly kirkcudbright storm event.
Edinburgh December 1 reports a Banff built ship under Master John Turner possibly taken by a French privateer. The vessel was seen off the English coast near Newcastle pursuing it, with no port arrival yet recorded.
Newcastle reports a string of robberies including 13 shillings and coins, a Leeds clothier relieved of money in Lemon-Lane, and a Sunderland man found murdered near Keswick. A Serpent Bomb Ketch crew clash left one pirate dead, and Captain Towart died of apoplexy. Durham Turnpike saw a plasterer murdered for money. Outlaws and smugglers are blamed. York notes Admiral Medley’s funeral weather-delayed. Treason suspects cited at Scarborough.
Edward Huderhill of Shropshire and another man were seized by a warrant from Lord Chesterfield. Messengers waited two days in Scarborough for the Dolphin, Robert Walker master, from Amsterdam. All papers seized and sealed, prisoners taken to London.
A Bath letter defends clerical duties while criticizing clergy who hire curates and neglect their own parishes. It urges bishops to investigate curacies to curb such practices, citing Archbishop Wake’s appeal. Also reports arrests and confessions of Sumner, Cole, Still, and Cromwell for multiple robberies near Salisbury and Bath, with goods recovered.
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