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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jan 28, 1777
Page
1
To be sold by auction by Mr Tatters All at the Turk Coffee House and Tavern near Hyde Park Turnpike on Monday February 3 at 12 o clock. Capital seasoned hunters will be sold within four days with fox hounds. No reserve on any hunter. ten well bred mares and the well bred horse Alborne included. View and catalogues available three days before the sale.
From the London Gazette January 28 reporting promotions in Prussia and Britain. Major General promotions include Nassau Ungern, de Billerbeck, and de Stechow to Lieutenant General, with ten colonels elevated to Major General and several junior officers advanced. UK King grants William Hemlington a Canonry at Oxford Cathedral. Ireland seals new peerages including Earl of Shipbrooke and Viscount Amiens and Earl Aldborough. Appointments to Ireland’s Privy Council honor Richard Heron and Edward Longford. a baronetcy is conferred on Henry Langside and heirs.
The report details ships sent from the Admiralty to Portsmouth to support General Howe in America, promotion of Captain George Montagu to command the ROMNEY, and various captures and naval movements including the Mercury, La Soy Panter, Live Oak, and Phoenix. It covers dockyard upgrades, ship commissions, protests at York, riots avoidance at Rochester theatre, and civilian notices of marriages, deaths, and bankrupts, with a focus on naval affairs and local governance.
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