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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Feb 11, 1738
Page
1
Extract from a letter dat ed 683 reports a severe storm in the West Indies with St Louis leveled, forts blown, ships wrecked, and many drowned. Windward islands suffer while storms burn ships. Contemporaneous dispatches note sieges, political conferences, and military concerns across Constantinople Vienna Naples as nations discuss peace and possible uprisings.
From Scotland we learn via Kircudbright that Captain Hugh Fullerton of Carletoun died in the 84th year. He fought at Bothwell Bridge. In Edinburgh a party of about 80 Dutch recruits detained their jailer and guards in Canongate Tolbooth, seized their keys and provisions, and began a mutiny to force escape, offering capitulation on honorable terms which was rejected. A strong guard remains and starvation or mercy looms for the desperadoes in a few days.
Bristol report notes Stokes the Tide Surveyor seized about 600 weight of coffee and 11 large casks of rum on a Jamaica bound ship. Also mentions the death of Andrew Buck at 96 near Thornbury after long marriage and large family. Norwich fire destroys a Hot Press shop on St Peter's Permountergate with presses and goods lost, total loss estimated at 5 to 600 pounds.
Reports from Stamford show a unanimous reelect of a member to Parliament in place of William Noel. Yarmouth may choose Capt Roger Townshend as replacement for Col Townshend. Notices recount deaths including Col Betterworth in Jersey and Lady Stradling of St Donat's, plus tributes to her charitable conduct and county ties. Also reports Habeas Corpus case about Mr Lacy, a broken leg for solicitor George Wilson, and court actions against a Hertfordshire parson for libel.
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