Notable Deaths and Crimes Highlight London Ledger
A London column notes the marriage at St John Southwark of a Westminster cabinet maker to the widow Mrs Hyat. obituaries for Mr Josiah Platt a former pawnbroker and clothier and for James Penbetten formerly an artillery officer. Reports recount a child killed by falling marble in Islington, a customs officer missing in Glamorganshire, and attempts or successes by thieves in Highgate, Sloane Square, and Woolwich. A high court delivery session convicts John Wynne Power and others for piracy on the slave trade voyage Polly, with capital sentence for Wynne and mercy recommended for John Fawcett. Dispatches from The Hague and St Augustine convey political and plantation news, while a seizure of fine lace and a Dunkirk sloop incident near Harwich appear in the latest notices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hargents Fittery
Westminster
Satie
St. John
Southwark
David Spracety
Hyat
Réthérhithe
Chrelsea
Jdsiah Platt
Holborn
Woolwich
James Penbétten
Mr. Jones
Thames-street
Allen
Islington
Glamorganshire
Ahemi
Moody
General Penny
Highgate
Lutterell
Htis
Sého-square
Thomas Salisbury
High Court of Admiralty
Doctor's Commons
Justice Hall
High Seas
John Wynne
Power
Polly
Cox
Bristol
Guinea
Cape Appolonia
Baffan
Fitz
Gerald
Pott
John Fawcett
Wittta Fiall
Brown
Liverpool
Africa
John Tomlin
Hwaanely
Stern
Las
Hague
Curacoa
Vienna
Tuscany
St. Augustine
East
Florida
Carolifia Carrency
Yeterday
The
Customs
Buwy
Harwich
Dajuck
Custom House
Dunkirk
Thatport
Ath
Cowes
Soul Carolina
Classified notice offers lease and property details
An advertisement describes a house for rent about forty miles from London with three or four rooms, a kitchen garden, and twenty acres of meadow or pasture, plus water supply. It notes a postpaid letter to T. A at Marlborough Coffee-house with particulars, and adds that Essex and Sussex are excluded from the offer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Leuers
T. A
Marlborough
Marlborough Street
Essex
Sussex
Society of
Albions
Paris
Taylor
Richardson and Urquhart
Royal Exchange
Misuse of charity and satire in London Evening-Post letters
A long reader correspondence thread critiques a letter accusing Sir John Falstaff of misappropriating kingly funds and defends a satirical piece aimed at a lecturer on hearts. The exchanges praise prudence, condemn flippant ridicule, and urge restraint while urging support for benevolence, toward creditors and public figures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Evening-Post
Meres
Timothy
John
Sir John
Falstaff
Hal
Hits
Farwing
Cain
Rexevolus
Réymer
Resevolus
Dodd
Queston
Ian
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Edinburgh
John Quincy, M.D. S
Ts Longman
Parer-nofteg
Radcliffe
France
Chen
Dixwell
St. Martin’s Lane
Charing-Cross
Williams
Bookfeller
Fleet-Street
Nica
St Paul’s Church-Yard
Lewis
Roflel-Street
Covent-Garden
Bortles
Eu&t
Iowa
J. Jonesy
T. Evans
Prinved
Sala
Mer
Cooke’s
Cornhill
St. Paul’s
Bugeridge’s
Starioner
Sc.Margaret’s Hill
Southwork
Ac Ghild
Londov
Sains Paul
Postscript
Shakespear
Henry the Fourth
London Evening-Post
He Nugat
Seria Ducant
P.S
Tim. Sharply
Broghey
London Evening- Post
James Long
J. Ly
Teme
M. K
J. L
M. K’s
Yorke
Lam, &c
Long, Weehampton
Lavington
Wikis
Beteen Lord Clancarty
Mac A . Tf Dankirk
Mac Alletter
Monobay
England
York
Boujogee
Petic Maitre
Marseal
Keith
Mar
Femmy Dawkins
Marshal
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