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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Mar 20, 1759
Page
3
March 19 reports a Snow Privateer off the bar menaced by coblemen then anchoring near the harbour. A vessel seized included the Fortune of Whitby valued at 3501. In Salisoury Rev Hawes dies and local coalmeter John Guillaume hangs himself, coroner deeming him lunatic after a chalked note blaming a mate for ruin.
Port News reports ships under royal command sailing for India and Africa. Vessels include Edgar Antelope Dover Fly Sloops Stormont Fletcher and the Dutch India Ship Nancy Bambridge and others. Tem ple Dover Otter and Stormont prepare outward bound with wind shifts from southwesterly to northwesterly.
From Paris and beyond comes a bundle of items: notices to Paris bankers about a royal audience to hear a Protestant letter at Clermont Tonnerre, claims of King Louis allowing a Protestant deputy, and a pledge of fifty million livres. Also reported: promotions in Prussia, Swedish and Imperial ship captures, scarce provisions at Martinique, and various local appointments and legal motions. The text mixes international intrigue with English municipal notices, naval affairs, and obituaries.
Evening notices recount the death of Eleazer Holdworth and list sentences from Winchester Assizes including Thomas Carter and James Gray for horse stealing John Stutton for forgery Richard Adams for murder John Ennis at Gutport and others for theft breaking and robbery with hogs sheep silver and cloths while John Cowen is committed to New Prison for burglary at York Buildings and related thefts.
A letter discusses reform of the Poor Laws, proposing clearer parish accounting of penalties, bastard children expenses, and hospital funds to reduce the poor tax. It calls for vestry actions to recover penalties and improve transparency in how funds are levied, received, and spent.
Reports from Amsterdam state a Dutch appeal heard by the king's council. Lord Marshal Keith travels via Genoa with a commission to Spain. Kronedy arrives from a cruise to Lifton. Lloyds and tax figures, sermons, and burials are listed alongside naval victualling and banking notes, with scattered casualty counts and stock prices.
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