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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Dec 19, 1780
Page
3
Fragmentary OCR notes report winds and naval movements involving His Majesty's ships Dromedary and Perseus in December. Details are unclear but reference a naval context and racing or encounter near December observations.
London reports a Cabinet Council debated war with Holland and issued notices to Dutch ships to leave, with letters of marque for privateers. Prominent figures Jenkinson Mansfield and Sir Joseph Yorke discussed a broader conflict pattern, while Fleet movements and ambassadorial recalls signaled rising tensions.
A lengthy review traces Major General Benedict Arnold from Saratoga to Philadelphia. It describes his extravagant living, mounting debts, hostile relations with Gates and Congress, and a court martial over misuse of public goods. It notes his pursuit of funds via privateering and betrayal schemes as Washington censures him.
Meffrs Sharman and Co offer a scheme taking down numbers at a high premium to draw a prize of fifty pounds as described in their notice. They claim to have paid hundreds of pounds on this plan and reference another branch of their insurance business with offices in Fleet Street Dunstan's-church Cornhill Exchange Hill High Holborn Cockspur Street Charing-cross Suffolk Street facing the Goelik.
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