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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jul 05, 1763
Page
3
A man returning from Tetbby Market near Dunkirk faced demands for money and then his watch. When he refused, a pistol shot ended the man’s life, striking three bullets into his chest. The killer fled. a landlord described the suspect as a short, 18 year old man with smallpox pitting, mounted on a dark brown blind-eyed mare with a switch tail.
PORT NEWS REPORTS vessels departed with outward-bound ships such as Coventry Barley for Quebec Carolina Friend for Philadelphia Dean Salisbury for Dublin. Names of ships include Richard and Elizabeth Payner for Chichester Howard and Friendship Hunter Barnevelt Howard for Liverpoole. Arrivals mention John and Elizabeth Love from Bilboa John and Anne Levings from London and Hanover packet from Lisbon. Britannia Walmsley from South Carolina and Char Josta Wolf passed by.
Extra from Lifoon reports a 90 day passage on an advice ship from the Rio. Fleet planned to sail in May and reach by mid August with a four ship force from Bahia. Lord Clive privateers and Portuguese frigate attacked St Sacramento. fortifications bombarded and Spaniards reportedly driven from the fort. Lord Clive blew up after an accident. many on board perished. Other ships, prizes, and captains noted with shipwrecks near Macao, and Galician tycoon activity. Crowds at Northumberland House. marriages and church details. public notices on fisheries, bad coin, drownings, and a run of crimes in London including highway robbery and transportation sentences.
A letter from A Perrite poses queries on the House of Commons authority derived from popular election, the duties of representatives to liberties, and potential surrender of power. It also questions the excise on cyder, proposals for Scottish productions, and whether punitive taxation could substitute corruption at borough elections. The writer laments political tumult and asks if the act could be repealed amid potential bloodshed, signing as Brevirus in the London Evening Post.
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