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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jul 22, 1779
Page
3
Fragmentary July nautical notice mentions ships and winds with names like Rabgee and Potemouch. Reads like a damaged shipping row with crew or vessel references and unclear actions. No clear dates beyond July and scattered ship names.
Letters from Madrid report rapid army formation near Gibraltar with 16 battalions and 12 squadrons under Lieutenant General Don Martin Alvares de Sato Major. Other dispatches note a Spanish squadron failing from Cadiz in June and ill health of the Imperial Majesty.
London reports detail the Earl of Carlisle relinquishing the Treasurer post of the Household to Lord Orford with Castle Howard in view for the new holder. Levant frigate arrives from Gibraltar with notices of nearby Spanish fleet movements, and dockyard works at Chatham receive Royal scrutiny. Privateers and captured prizes populate ports from Torbay to Guernsey, including ships from Cadiz, Cork, and Ostend, with losses, ransom deals, and convoy movements.
The report notes privateers Duke of Cornwall and True Briton from Swanzey and Strangford, with the Ocean and other prizes: Hope of Liverpool Matty Glasgow Kitty of Glasgow and Lord Cornwallis of Whitehaven. A French frigate recaptured vessels and carried them to L Orient. Also, a devastating fire at St Sidwells Exeter, a Cheapside collapse killing a girl, and police actions in Whitechapel.
A sale by auction on Tuesday August 1 12779 at Haverford West Pembroke County invites bids on several freehold estates. The properties lie in various parishes and include names such as David Lin Howell Litarichen Mithry Tabony Llagryan Grandston and others. Total annual rents exceed Goo per year with taxes and outgoings paid by tenants. many feoffees likely expire soon as life interests are exhausted. Details and particulars requested from Mr George Parry attorney at Haveford West and Mr Melva in Berford Square London. Price noted as $69.
Announcement of a five o clock Friday start for a course of lectures by R Leake from the College of Physicians London on midwifery theory and practice and diseases of women and children. Proposals and attendance germs listed with numerous booksellers and locations across Britain and Ireland.
Letting and sale notice for a good farm including 40 acres at Scoughton and 76 acres at Stoughton, in the tenure of different tenants. To be held at Leicester on a Saturday in August between noon and 2 pm. For details contact Mr. Bares or Mr. Bray at Bloomfield, Leicestershire.
A sale under a bankruptcy commission at the George Inn Burford begins at two o clock in the afternoon. Properties include a 22 acre farm in Stilton with appurtenances and pasture, a public house known as the Carpenter's Arms in Fulbrook with brewhouse and garden, and a large fatted house in Burford Market Place with mercer draper business facilities. For details contact John Churchill Auctioneer Woodstock or Mr Turner London. Estate particulars and conditions to be produced at sale. 1903.
Notices warn that several estates in Cornwall and Devon, including Cross Barton and holdings in Butes Freming and St Stephens, may be disposed of by private contract this September unless sold earlier. Other items list Moorland and property in Plymouth with multiple owners and a request to contact Messrs Johns and Leach or Alan Crent's Fin, London, for particulars.
Auction notice for a ready furnished Roxmale House with gardens ponds and about 20 acres of land near Warwick, Stratford upon Avon, Henley, Birmingham turnpike. Mr Parry and Thomas Hays handle the sale with Wren estate notes and debt clearances required before July 1978.
Proposals invited for sale of multiple tenements and lands totaling extensive acreage around Conway and Caernarvon, including farms, houses, meadows, and crofts. Holdings lie within one to four miles of Caernarvon and along the Holyhead Road, with leases for lives and terms varying. rents listed, with sale proposed by David Walthe and agents in Dublin and London.
Publication details announce the Monday August 2 release of Vablaire’s Works in elegant octavo, with portraits and engravings by Walker and others. Priced at five shillings per volume, the plan includes Voltaire’s works, Volumes I IV, and related authors, with further volumes and a delayed November release noted.
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