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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Dec 16, 1758
Page
2
The column reports on naval moves, ship launches, prize captures, and Harbor incidents with mentions of Admiral Osborn, the Resolution, and the Orraca berla. It also notes deaths and marriages of notable figures like Lord Butler and a Cambridge professor, plus legal notices and bankruptcies from London.
Public sale advertised for the Manor of Marsx with 4700 acres of arable, meadow and pasture in Cleveland. Includes two large houses, gardens, fisheries, an alum-work, and rights to tyths and a rectorial presentation. Located ten miles from Stockton upon Tees and three miles from Gisborough. inquiries to London and Essex agents.
Stockholm reports General de Hamilton seeking leave from his Pomerania command while Prince Xavierus of Saxony arrives at court. Paris notes the redemption of French captives from Morocco, with Fathers Rubell and George paying ransoms for fifty captives. The British Royal Navy and Gibraltar authorities aided the mission, securing passage and protection for the exchange vessels and crews. The effort highlights English support and the freed captives, many seamen, including captains, writers, sailors, and cabin-boys.
Last Tuesday the Rover Man of War sailed for New York and Louisbourg with a trade, then reached Kinsale from the Bay of Biscay. The Newark of 8 guns, Capt. Holborne, formerly in Admiral Saunders’s squadron, arrived at Kinsale, bound for England, after easterly winds. Last Thursday night the ship from Lancaster to this port, Capt. Mackareil, wrecked on Cloughnakilty Bay. crew and cargo saved. In Dublin a few days ago Mr Alexander Hay, second mate of the Norfolk Indiaman and related to the Marquis of Tweedale, died at Kinsale, and Mrs Hall, sister to the Earl of Kildare, died in Duke Street.
A London letter notes Capt Montgomerie's report from Virginia of Fort Duquesne's fall to Gen Forbes. An express reached Hampton on October 20 bearing the same news, with hopes that future Virginia ships will confirm it. Also mentions Little William Murray arriving at Virginia with a ship from Martinique bound for Amsterdam. Country news includes obituaries and a failed jailbreak attempt at a castle.
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