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London Evening Post

Location

London, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Date

Dec 18, 1740

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Debates on Courland Crisis and Russian Intervention

Warsaw reports a Senate council considering Courland’s fate after the Duke’s downfall, urging a Russian protection claim and a dispatch to Petersburg. Dantzick notes Russian seizure of the Duke’s property, with political shifts toward Saxony. Berlin notes rapid troop movements and a new corps creation. Paris sources reveal Genoa dispatches and Corsican affairs, while Petersbourg confirms imperial stance against the Duke. France plans West Indies ventures amid broader European maneuvers. Genoa mentions Neuhoff’s farewell to Corsica’s leaders and promises of future outcomes.

Petersbourg Courland Poland Republick Dutchy Rita Dantzick Mittau Palatinates Mauritius of Saxony Duke of Paris Genoa Herce Lomelini Nat Republick Corsica Senate Bastia John Baptist Croce Rome Cardinal Acquaviva Cardinal Teem Leghorn U.S Lubras Henniger Empresa Anne Russia Versailles Stockholm Alsace America France d’Antin Marquess de la Roche-Allard Roquefeuille Nefmond West Indies Mitchief Baron Neuhoff Corticans

Tremendous Frost and Snow Patch Edinburgh Notes

Edinburgh reports bitter frost with heavy snowfall and crowds viewing a whale near Cramond causing near drownings as ferry crowds surged. Updates note a captured tobacco ship Thomas of Glasgow at Havre de Grace by a Spanish privateer and widespread West Country distress from provisioning shortages and bear meal price.

Scotland Edinburgh Cramond Thomas of Glasgow George Buchanan Greenock Havre-de-Grace West Country Irvine Tolbooth Robert

Destructive Thunderclap And Fire Devastate Town

Eyewitness accounts describe a violent blast that toppled people and damaged buildings, with injured residents and a woman burned and scarred. A pillar of fire, crashing thunder, and falling stones caused terror before rain and hail forced evacuations. A second fire in Leith was quelled by magistrates and the fire engine.

Archibald Bar John Howie John Galt Mason John Cotton Lane Innes Mr. Boyd Cunningham Tolboom Baiilig Nisbet Edinburgh Leith

Ship Henry and Mary Sinks After Leak Off Flamborough Head

News from Newceasile states that the Henry and Mary, sailing from London, sprang a leak near Flamborough Head and sank in about an hour. The crew of ten, including a woman passenger, escaped into a yawl and were rescued by a leaden colter who carried them ashore at Filey Bay.

Newceasile Henry and Mary London Flamborough- Head Yawl Colter Filay Bay

Browne Granted Mairage To Sussex Gentleman

London reports that Jait Charles Browne Esquire of Bay-Hall near Tanbire-Wells married Marie Mirell of the Moe in Sussex by mutual consent with a fortune of 15,000. Theking’s progress to the House of Lords announced the Lanc-Tax Bill and a bill for naturalists. The Lords adjourned to January seventh, with the Commons also to that date.

Charles Browne Bay- Hall Tanbire-Wells Moe Sussex House of Peers Duke of Richmond Lord Fauconberg Red-Chamber Julia de Petters Commons

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