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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jan 12, 1782
Page
2
A catalog note advertises an East India affair set in two volumes priced at two Guyneas, half bound and lettered. The entry cites folio format and binding quality as features for collectors.
R. Cline will begin his Course of Anatomical and Surgical Lectures on Monday. the arrangement at one o'clock.
Letters from the Morea report 14,000 Albanians invading the peninsula causing villagers to flee to woods and high ground as roving bands seize grain. Armies in Macedonia and Achaia ordered to pursue robbers amid fears of rising numbers and provincial misery. The piece also covers naval force expansions in Cadiz, Gibraltar, and Cadis, with brisk reporting on ships, prizes, storms, and colonial naval movements, plus obits and social notes.
A dated Dublin note reports intelligence from the Pow-Oolice about a privateer cutter ravaging the channel. After a chase lasting three hours, the Anti Briton of 22 six pounders and 164 men, led by John Kelly who captured the Hope cutter last August, was captured on the 4th. The capture is praised for ending the vessel's mischief in the channel.
The postmastership recently granted to Lord Barrington is valued around 7s 0d per year, with possibilities to expand via coal and stationery profits. Rumors link the Earl of Leicester to Holkham bricks burned with post office coals and Lord Despencer to a private printing press at his house producing many post office paper impressions. Minorca advices note that the Spards are unlikely to fare better.
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