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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jan 08, 1741
Page
2
Governor, Council and Assembly urge aid from His Majesty and Parliament as 22 years of suffering cannot be relieved. A dispatch will be sent to request assistance for the dreadful calamity. An embargo blocks ships for 30 days to prevent enemies from exploiting the situation. only one ship may sail with this lamentable advice.
Reports from Edinburgh describe thaw swelling rivers causing damage from mulls to roads and delaying the London Fort arrival. News notes a customs appointment replacing a deceased official and a north wind storm wrecking several boats with seven lost lives. Also reported is the death of Rev James Anderson aged 84, minister of Raithen.
London. This Day was private interment at Fulham near the late Bishop of London. The body of Mrs Letitia Cornwallis, wife of Thomas Cornwallis of Abermarles, died abroad while traveling to the South of France for health. Also reported are a drowning of Mr Pre, a fire-plot discovery at Mr Wright’s cellar, the launch of a 40 gun ship at Deptford, orders to victual the Nafsau, and seamen recruitment activity at Bulow Bridge and Blackwall. Payne becomes purser of Kingston after earlier appointment to Blandford Man of War.
A crowded notice lists deaths from smallpox and old age, including Powlet Wright Ely and Capt Wherry, with social ties to Hackney and Trinity House. Fire at Pickle-Herring Stairs causes losses and a missing waterman. Joseph Chitty, Esq. aids sufferers. Spring floods disrupt wharfs and prisons, with prize drawings and a gambling probe against John Joysey at the Hay Market masquerade.
Reported case references a loaded-dice gaming warrant with a potential fivefold forfeit and corporal punishment, a Darking district theft spree tied to a hog and packed granaries, the capture and escape of a gang member, and ongoing man-of-war stock news from Jamaica to Dover Road. Capt. Campion’s Mary, with engaging combat against a Spanish privateer near Gibraltar, reports three wounded and a detailed ship description. Market prices update for South Sea stock and related annuities with Bank notes unchanged.
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