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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jan 10, 1758
Page
2
The engagement between Victory and French vessels St Michael Amethyst and Atlanta left the Victory heavily damaged yet afloat. French casualties were light, area mutinies at Namur noted, with several leaders secured. Obituaries and local notices accompany the naval report, including personnel changes and civic briefs.
From the London Gazette report of December seas operations, the brig Brilliant and the Coventry engage French ships. They retook the John Gallé from Boston loaded with tar and oil, captured a French ship Neptune, sunk a French snow Diamond after fire damaged her, captured a Dragon privateer, and sunk the Intrepid. Casualties noted include several dead or wounded aboard Diamond and Dragon. The actions occurred near the Lizard, in latitudes 48 and 49 degrees, during December.
A meeting of trustees to execute AGs of Parliament for repairing the highway between Tyburn and Uxbridge in Middlesex is appointed at Mrs Skidmore’s Old Hat, Ealing, on Saturday the 21st inst, at ten in the forenoon. Trustees will receive proposals from willing persons to serve the trust with screened gravel along Heath and through Hanwell, New Brentford, Ealing to the Great Western Road.
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