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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jan 12, 1782
Page
1
Age one at St Thomas's Hospital. B. Cline will commence his course of Anatomical and Surgical Lectures on Monday at one o'clock, the time noted as the minute hit.
Letters from the Morea confirm 24000 Albanians invading the peninsula and causing misery as locals retreat to woods and high lands. Orders to march against the robbers. Meanwhile Peterborough reports Empress plans to increase maritime strength to 64 ships of the line, with a squadron to guard Kerfo n. Cadiz notes the St Barbe and Harlequin. Madrid and Utrecht relay Gibraltar campaigns, storms, and Madagascar provisions. Hamburg reports Commodore Keith Stewart encounter with Swedish frigates under armed neutrality. Hagzye notes a 6090 mariners plan and nine ships of the line proposal from Admiralty committees.
Copy of a letter from Captain Cooper commander of his Majesty's ship Sing to Mr Stephens dated Dubla the 5th infant reporting intelligence of a privateer in the channel and the pursuit. After a chase of three hours he captured the Ann Briton of 22 six pounders and 104 men commanded by John Kelly who previously captured the Hope cutter last August. The captain notes the privateer has caused much mischief in the channel and expresses satisfaction at the capture.
The postmastership now granted to Lord Barrington is valued at about zsool a year with potential extensions in coal and stationery. Rumors say the old Earl of Leicester burned all the bricks for his Holkhim edifice with post office coal and that Lord Despencer once held a printing position in highon.
Reports detail French activity in the West Indies and attacks on Gibraltar, with heavy Allied and enemy casualties and disease among the French. Dispatches note ships from New York, Brest fleet movements, and hopes of Jamaica action. London society coverage highlights fashion, birthdays, and charity wear in aid of Irish manufacture, plus petty crime and multiple deaths.
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