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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jan 20, 1747
Page
1
Dispatches describe Genoa preparing to repel Austrian and Piedmontese advances. Genoese arming, edicts against disturbance, and reliefs promised. Milan and Vienna report negotiations, reinforcements, and skirmishes as French, Austrian, and Piedmontese forces maneuver across Provence and the Low Countries.
In Dublin Fan a last Thursday death is noted for William Prendergast Esquire a Clerk in the Examiner's Office at the Custom House. Also last week Mr Aylmar alleged as a Captain of Horse in the French Service was taken aboard a Dutch ship in the Shannon, papers seized, and confined in Limerick.
Yesterday morning the Right Hon Lady Helen Montgomery spouse to Capt Stuart of Pittendreich and sister to the Earl of Eglington died in Edinburgh. In the forenoon John Fergusson of Colonel Lee's Regiment was executed at the Links of Leith by a court Martial for Robbery and Desertion. He had previously robbed a Dunfermline carrier, fled to Dumfries, was recaptured, and returned to Edinburgh for punishment. The execution was attended by the Garrison chaplain who urged soldiers to avoid drunkenness as the cause of his crimes.
In Portsmouth on Wednesday, the Court Martial aboard HMS Duke before Admiral Byng acquitted Captain Bromfield of blame in the Panther Armed Ship loss. The Master and Mate were dismissed without wages.
London reports a Tower artillery advance with seventy field pieces of a new lighter invention. A boy could handle them, saving three or four men previously needed. The armament aims beyond mere show, with another embarkation at Bref anticipated and New England troops kept ready for Canada defense, awaiting fleet alliance.
A lively ball at St James's crowded the great ballroom as Prince and Princess of Wales opened the event. Princess Augusta and princes danced while Duke of Cumberland led country dances. News of promotions followed with George and Edward gaining captain and cornet ranks in newly raised dragoons. Reports of a window tax adjustment and arrivals from Lisbon, with ships and cargoes bound for Madras and China, fill further pages.
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