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Newspaper

London Evening Post

Location

London, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Date

Mar 09, 1776

Page

3

Armies and fleets in action echo European tensions

A hurried dispatch from St James's notes a French force of eleven battleships, four frigates and bomb vessels under Monsieur D Ache plus an allied Spanish army of 46,000 under Marbeuf preparing for an April operation claimed to target Algiers. British reports recount Union-era naval movements, captured vessels, and growing costs with pending military funding and garrison plans across North America.

Col France St. James’s Spain Portugal Monsieur D’ Ache Languedoc Monsieur de Marbeuf Carthagena Parma Algiers Clinton Mercury New-York Virginia Kitty Thomson Liverpool Glasgow Packet Porterfield Boston Smith Three Sisters New- York Sandy Hook West India Islands Blue Mountain Valley Dempster London Elizabeth Town Molly Collins Turk’s Island Norfolk Sir Peter Parker Londonderry War Office Chelsea Gibraltar Minorca North America Mars Chatham The Nore

Market Prices and Ship Arrivals in Deal and London

Prices for Rye Oats Pale Malt Brown Malt Beans and other goods listed with measurements and per last rates. Mentions Lent readings for bakeries and appointed Lent preachers at various London parishes. Ship news notes Greyhound cutter, Gale Jefferys, Edward Rider, Charming Peggy, St George Falconer and Polly Lear arrivals and bankrupts with multiple debtor actions and Guildhall notices. High water predictions for London Bridge listed for the next days.

St. Paul Covent-garden Trebeck St. Bride’s Sandiford St. James Clerkenwell White St. Mary Woolnoth Fitzherbert St. Botolph Aldgate Crowther St. Katharine Fly St. Saviour’s Southwark Pinncck Leshorn Peggy Tyley Newfoundland Macferrat St George Falconer London Antigua Polly Lear Newcastle Hampden Lewis Freeman Dalling New England John Allen Lambeth Marth Surry Staicmaker Surender John Nicholls Ludgvan Cornwall Sam Jones New Bond Street Hanover Square Mercer and Haberdasher John Cotterell Fere-Arett Grocer Guildhall William Irwin Lampart Chumberland York’s Head Newcastle Upon Tyne Francis Supie Bath Bult Tavern Corn-street Bristle James Rhodes Liverpool Golden Lion Dalefreet John Wood Leeds Yorkshire Joseph Atkinson Potter Newton Abraham Lovett Plymouth Devonshire Upholler Prince George Inn Champion Constable Chertey Thomas Stuplens Pincestreet St. Ann Westminster Taylor

House of Lords and Commons Debate on Bills and Army Grants

The session reports a second reading and committee of bills including duties on tallow lard and grease, leases of land in Cornwall, and a mutiny bill. In the Commons, prayers for land tax, militia pay, Greenwich Hospital, and Camberwell lighting were discussed. The army extraordinaries debate featured Barrington, Barre, and others with a large grant under consideration amid warnings of vast costs for North America conflict.

Portsmouth Capceaux Mouat Boston Oakham Rutlandshire Serjeant Hill de Grey Lincoln Nottingham Court of Common-council Guildhall William Huffey Black Friars Bridge Wallace Dunning Mylne Winchester Richard Whatley Churchill Benjamin Depre Lovell Stanhope London Stanhope Geo. Collier David Hatfield Tho. Hawkins Elizabeth Goffe Ringwood Johnn Grant Cornwall Richard Lee Lord Vernon Greenwich Hospital Camberwell Barre Colonel Barre Gilbert Elliot Rigby Governor Johnstone Lord North Fox Ellis Burke George Germaine Serjeant Adair Lord Barrington Seymour Hartley House of Commons North America America

She Defection o: Discord or The Whigs Poem

A fragmentary 18th century announcement printed by J Dixwell at 148 St Martin's Lane. The page references a poem titled She Defection or Discord and attributes it to a Whig era poet. Publication details are partial and obscured by damaged OCR.

Price Whigs J. Dixweil St. Martin’s- Lane Chrisy

Herefordshire Estates to be Sold by Auction at Ross

A historical auction notice offers two freehold farms in Herefordshire near Hereford and Ross. Lot 1 Treseck Farm over 250 acres with mills and woods. Lot 2 Blet Farm about 280 acres with arable pasture and woodland. Both include rights of Wye fishing and toll-free status, with timber and stock sale options.

Herefordshire Ross Tresseck Hernand Ballingham Little Dew Church Tome Hereford Rows Trebenfield Wye England Treffeck Tretfeck Edward Williams Fleek House WeLy Chanery-lane London Wane Taylor

Fumigating and kitchen ware by D Fontaine Holborn

A vintage advertisement offers fumigating machines and tobacco based blight preventers, plus durable tin kitchen utensils and camp fittings. It touts self sealing milk boilers, new style spoons and funnels, chimney parts, infaston pots for sore throats, and old metals accepted as exchange.

Vnew&s D. Fontaine Holborn Navy Jeje

Speech on Britain's American War Policy and State of Liberty

A House of Lords speaker warns against pushing the war with America, decrying constitutional overreach and ministerial ambition. He deplores foreign troops, fears erosion of liberty, questions finance and supply lines, and condemns brutal acts in Virginia while urging restraint and unity.

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