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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Dec 29, 1774
Page
1
On Blombay January 6 publisher announces a pocket volume titled The Racing Calendar. Clerks of Races will supply the books free at listed locations upon written orders.
Publication from New York reprinted in London for Richardson and Urquhart at the Royal Exchange. The tract argues against violent opposition to the King's groups and against general non importation, outlining its consequences in clear terms for American readers. It was published with the date line indicating today and priced at 15.6d.
To be sold by auction by Mr Tattersall at the Turf Coffee House near Hyds Park Turnpike on Monday next month at 2.00 pm Hawking a well bred two year old by Snap sire of Pinchot and King Herod also a Godolphin Arabian progeny rich stock including twenty mares colts and fillies eight seasoned hunters six pairs of coach horses and other odds viewed and catalogues available three days prior to sale.
Persons of distinction and officers on full or half pay, clergymen with life incomes, may raise present sums by private arrangements. Applications to Mr. Bertie, Vine Street, Piccadilly, will be promptly attended to on equitable terms.
A London Evening Post fragment shows Harpagus seeking a plain full answer to six questions about employment by printers for newspapers, requests to Lord North, personal attacks on the Earl of Chatham, Garrick, party writing with ducal backing, and a bid to join the Pensioners list.
London dispatches report New Year events canceled in Grand Council Chamber due to Sunday fall. Earl of Guildford paid last quarter’s salary to royal household. Algiers French consul massacred. Anglo Dutch trade tensions flare in Atlantic. American colonial prospects warned. East India Stock Court confirms Colonel Stuart as Adjutant-General with 3900 pounds salary. Port Packer and Cadiz Packer ships arrive safe in the river.
The Amber, Pearson sails from North Carolina to London and is guided to Penzance after foul weather. Capt Planck reports the Mary Jones from Georgia in distress near Scilly. four men drown, boats lost, one ship hove to Batten. Other ships Ithaca and Nottingham Indiaman adjust routes amid fog and coastal duties. Local notices report dockyard pay, hay market disruptions, thefts, and police actions with several drownings and a coroner verdict of accidental death. Prices at Leadenhall and Whitechapel markets show beef, mutton, veal, pork, hay and straw rates. Marriages, deaths, and societal notices complete the page.
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