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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jan 24, 1747
Page
1
Reports from Petersbourg, Genoa, and Vienna describe Count Lafcy’s return with Empress Catherine’s favor, troop quartering plans, and ongoing armaments as a peacekeeping posture. Revolt leaders in Genoa are crushed, with six nobles named, guards expanded, and a new Doge-led council installed.
Last Saturday at St Stephen's Green the Duchess of Manchester gave birth to a son. In Linnenhall Street Mr Edward French, a once prominent Dublin merchant, died after a long life. A few days ago Reverend Philip Downes of Derry Diocese died. he was brother to the Bishop of Leighlin and Ferns. His living passes to Reverend Dr Ledwidge, Vicar General of Kildare.
Edinburgh reports last week a French privateer of eighteen guns and 160 men was taken by a royal ship. A purse worth twenty pounds sterling ran for on Leith Sands, won by Mare, owned by Lord Cranston. A fire in a new tenement in North Leith destroyed the building. a woman in childbirth and several children could not be rescued, boats saved occupants through windows as ships in harbour faced danger.
The article notes calls for careful accounting of wartime expenditures and questions how to trace quantities of goods at different times. It praises potential savings from disbanding Life Guards troops and reducing regiments to dragoons, claiming 70 000 per year could be saved. It also mentions the Sword of State being carried to the chapel by the Earl of Stamford.
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