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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Mar 02, 1779
Page
1
A sale of silk fabrics and related items at Coventry Cross Chandos Street near Cobent Garden. Includes brocades damasks tabbies lustrings and crapes with jet wear silks, bombazeens and more, offered at very cheap terms with the lowest price marked on each piece. Also note Ireland’s finest tuffe and poplin mentioned.
The document describes the Manor of Barforth on the Tees with 1630 acres, two tythes paid in kind, and tenants on yearly tenure. It also lists Kirby Underdale with Painshop on the East Riding, 2170 acres, and Ellerton freeholds near the Derwent, 352 acres. Widdington in the West Riding adds 196 acres with river access and fishery rights.
An open letter rails at the Lords power over printers and presses urging defiance against arbitrary authority. The author asserts Parliament cannot permanently bind liberty and argues printers may resist unlawful sequestration, invoking historical figures and constitutional principles to defend against oppression.
A reader laments Lord Radnor and the Duke of Richmond over demanding attendance of the Printer of the General Advertiser. The writer warns against suppressing the press and urges the Duke to oppose penal powers, arguing Parliament cannot command printers or curb the press without harming liberty. He cites Magna Charta as a safeguard and critiques those who credence zeal for patriots while attacking the constitution.
Reports from Pera Constantinople and Ry Caferta note a persistently severe winter with deep snow and air purification hopes to halt plague. Italy suffers livestock losses, especially in Puglia, while Denmark faces ongoing cattle mortality prompting renewed export prohibitions to Norway and other regions.
Foreign intelligence reports all staff officers on furlough will rejoin the army on February 18. The Emperor plans to travel to Prague for his headquarter. In Württemberg Prince Frederick Maria Joseph, Duke of Württemberg since 1775 and Bamberg since 1757, died February 18. A merchant fleet from Rochefort, escorted by warships and frigates, heads for America. Count d Estaing’s squadron may be reinforced with nine ships of the line.
Dispatches reach Greenock from New York via a ship. Brest fleet now twenty four ships fit for sea with eight more near ready and over four thousand English seamen prisoners reported. An express from Vienna confirms peace between the King of Prussia and the Empress Queen of Hungary amid notable interference.
Letters from Ireland and Falmouth detail celebrations over Admiral Keppel’s acquittal, a planned signing of a peace settlement reshaping Bavaria to the Elector Palatine with minor compensation, and retention of other belligerent possessions. Privateers Lizard Volpone and Le Volpone raid ships. Stranraer prize brigantine Salisbury seized tobacco and arms. Liverpool Blues head to Jamaica. Court news include lottery case verdicts and a jesting witness. Burglary at Hackney. clerical promotions and deaths listed.
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