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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Feb 06, 1739
Page
1
The London Evening Port issue numbered 1753 presents a short notice with header repetition. Details are limited in the fragment, showing publication sequencing but no clear events, names, or dates to describe a complete item.
Reports from Copenhagen, Leghorn and Paris detail European maneuvering. Aron de Bernsdorff signals Hanoverian settlement of Steinhorst while urging restoration of prior conditions. Corsican council backs Baron Neuhoff as sovereign, promising neutrality and provision flows. Milan and Lisbon dispatches note Free-Mason condemnation and renewed Franco-Spanish tensions over America and St Sacrament.
Letters from Flanders report the death of the Earl of Fingall after a short illness. The piece notes upcoming appointments to the King’s Counsel, a poisoning case in Staffordshire, and changes in Chancery. It covers royal replies to the Commons address, the birth of a Prince, an election to Ryegate, and plans by West India merchants to seek trading rights, plus local accidents and obituaries. It closes with Whitefield’s travel to preach for funds for orphans.
Edinburgh February 1 report of a brutal killing near Aberdeen in East Lothian. A blacksmith named Thomson, driven by family quarrels, attacked a stableman named Forrest in the road, cutting his throat from ear to ear and ripping him from belly to breast before being captured and imprisoned in Haddington gaol. Also noted is the death of John Stuart in Rome on December 28 at age 37 after a five day fever. He was the only issue of James, first Earl of Bute, and died a bachelor.
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