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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jul 28, 1753
Page
1
Arrivals from France and Holland noted with dates from Moscow to Hamburg. Reports detail Cossack and Hussar movements toward Livonia, trade reopenings between Persia and Russia, Swedish royal edicts, fires in Naumbourg, Spanish naval activity, Nova Scotia negotiations, and Jacobite interest in Prussia. Greenland fishing lists show British and Scottish vessels with catch summaries. Whitefield arrives in Edinburgh.
In Dublin July 71 the Faculty pass’d the Great Seal appointing Rev. Hill Benson to Deanery and multiple rectories including Magee Island value 4co. Rev. Roger Lyndon, rector and treasurer, died aged 71 at Little Cuff Street after 40 years in post. Two seizures of brandy and tea reported for 4col. Dr Swift’s life account, in Swift’s own hand, presented to Trinity College Dublin. James Moore of Liverpool marries Anne Haway of Waterford, heiress to 5000 pounds fortune, at Whaley-Abby, seat of Richard Whaley.
In Bury St Edmunds on July 28 a man named William Mann, a servant to Mr High of Creflingham Norfolk, was charged with stealing thirty four sheep from Mr Thomas Mait of Farnham. The flock was mixed with goods bound for London and Mann offered the sheep for sale at Ballingdon Essex. He initially asked eleven shillings per head but later agreed to five shillings. A buyer alerted a constable and Mann was taken to Ely where he confessed. Mait and his shepherd John Crane testified that thirty two sheep belonged to Mait and two to a different owner.
A long Epistolary and editorial fragment discusses elections, bribery, and political maneuvering. It roasts candidates and voters, notes bribe risks and bribery, mentions Parliament and clergy, and hints at Jewish and Christian influences. It laments irreligion as a cause of public decay and urges moral involvement in politics.
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