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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Feb 12, 1741
Page
1
Reports from Vienna Berlin Breslau and Paris describe Regiments marching toward Silesia and Prussian garrisons securing magazines in Potsdam. London letters note Adler Vernon patrolling Caribbean waters with twelve ships while French and Spanish fleets threaten Atlantic trade and port operations.
Plantation news reports alarms as multiple ships appear off the windward island. Capt. Drunymond from Barbadoes notes Weymouth Man of War captain Knowles arrived, fleet parted 300 leagues east of Barbadoes. Additional transports spotted near the island.
From Jamaica dated December and December across 16th and 12th, dispatches state that all troops from North America arrived six weeks earlier except four North Carolina companies not yet up. No South Carolina troops, Quakers in Philadelphia resisted servant service, Proprietor and top merchants donated 70001 to aid. Troops list includes Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, Philadelphia, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina. Total 3600.
ITRELAND Dublin Feb 9 Belfast reports Coastways send a large quantity of flour to Dublin due to overstocked inland markets. Cork notes the Biddeford Man of War under Lord Forrester from Spithead arrives with transports bound for Jamaica. Providence of Whitehaven sails with provs for Jamaica. John Williamson bound to Virginia stranded near Wexford with little damage. hopes to refloat. Briton from New England stranded near Boerhaven with flax seed cargo largely saved despite damage.
London reports mockery of Spain joining Italy effort and a suspended war plan. Private letters claim Farinelli ordered executed in Spain over a servant murder, with funds seized to erect a monument to English folly. Fire transports from Ireland delayed. three of eight ships ordered victualing amid Willwalling misgivings. The Mary, an Offerd Trader, seized in the river for suspected Spanish fruit, and ship and cargo forfeited by order of the customs.
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