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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jul 10, 1759
Page
2
The article notes descendancy of Leicestershire and Hampshire lines to Major Jennings of the Guards, and mentions obituaries and notices from Hampton Court and Barrow. It records other brief items including a drowning incident and a prison misbehavior case, plus a verbatim London Gazette extract on Admiral Rodney’s bombardment of Havre.
Fragmentary notice appears to reference an itinerant eye doctor and a quarrel over payment or service. The garbled text mentions a person taking a wit away and a date-like string, with scattered names or places unclear in this edition.
William Margetts Alleresst, the Younger, convicted for attempting to raise corn prices in Ely Market on Sept 24, 177, by offering six shillings a bushel for wheat. He pays fifty pounds to Ely and Cambridge poor, confesses in public, and publishes in newspapers as part of lenity.
Rome reports the Bishop of the Caphis in Egypt has abjured his schism and been received into the Catholic Church by missionaries, with measures under way to prevent Patriarch Alexandria from obstructing this work. In Upper Poterdnia, Russian troops are ordered to rejoin the grand army near Ponnania amid rumors of Count Dohna advancing. Ruffians despoil cattle near Lauenbourg, Drambourg, and Stolpen. In Stockholm, Ehrenschwerdt fractures a leg, delaying operations, while diversions by the Russians influence actions at Pomerania and Brandenburg. Anclam and Demmin garrisons are weak, troops moving to Poland. Vienna reports Duchess Dowager of Saxe-Weimar granted guardianship of her son. Bavarian elector plans to raise 20,000 troops. Scotland notes three militia regiments to oppose French moves in Argyleshire, Sutherland, and Caithness, Musselburgh armament scaled back as Dunkirk fortitude questioned. six frigates expected to patrol the Frith and coast.
Major Prowse's Company of Militia drilled and fired with regularity at Axbridge on Monday. An elegant officers and men’s entertainment followed, drawing a large crowd unseen in Axbridge for years. In Sherborne, Mrs. Jennings, wife of John Jennings, Esq., of Puddle-Trenthyde, Dorset, died. The Rev John Mannating, fellow of St John’s Cambridge, was nominated to the donative of Minsterley in Shropshire. Robert Daw of Muxton, carrying coal by cart with four horses, was struck by lightning during a thunderstorm. his horses were killed split, with two remaining unharmed.
Port News describes press dispatches from Kensington and Dover about soldiers being sent from July 11, pardons for deserters if rejoined by August 20, and troop movements to Kent. Admiral Rodney and Lord Howe plans to Sea, with war news from Havre, Guadaloupe, and New York. Reports include Ambherst’s force at Ticonderoga, ships sailing to New York and Halifax, and Highlanders in Guadaloupe with vivid battlefield anecdotes.
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