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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Feb 17, 1759
Page
2
Yesterday arrived the Mails from Holland and Flanders. Reports from Vienna Berlin and Paris sketch army movements, naval measures, and political tensions across Europe. Dutch and Swedish areas brace for Prussian advances while dispatches note Croat troops, Tartars rumors, and potential sieges.
Liverpool reports a decayed drowned man found on the Strand opposite Crofty, believed to be Lieut. Alexander M. Gowin of Co. Sanforth's Regiment. Also noted are Black John of Gloucestershire, a bearded beggar who amassed silver and gold, and local crimes and prisoner transfers at Folkestone and Canterbury.
The Plymouth report lists arrivals and sailings including the Juno and Richmond Frigates, Dolphin Dillon, Britannia Peak Witham Mary, and more from London for Jamaica. ships remain in the Downs. Other arrivals include the John Holloway from Seville and the Experiment Privateer with Conqueror Southampton Fowey Dispatch company ships in convoy.
Letters from London and Germany report French forces under General Lally landing at Pondicherry and preparing to embark for Calcutta while French possession spreads to Spier. Incoming dispatches describe privateers off St Kitts and Guardaloupe events, with French moves shifting valuables into mountains as an anticipated British response looms. The Fox packet voyage to Plymouth details sailing conditions and misheard signals.
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