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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Mar 25, 1758
Page
3
A letter to the author criticizes a Commons Bill to improve London Bridge. It notes no toll removal for coaches and high craft licensing fees. It estimates potential annual revenue and costs, including tonnage duties and craft marking requirements, with figures and calculations.
A letter laments high bridge charges to fund a London bridge project and compares schemes from penny to four penny per chaldron duties, arguing the 4d rate would still save the public. It also reports an express from the Hague: Ferdinand of Brunswick’s forces defeat Clermont near Herverden, with details scarce on casualties or captives.
Reports state Achital Osbourne seized an 84 gun ship with all Byars and one 74 gun vessel, a third ship escaping. French privateers unmanned on arrival. crews sent ashore. Toulon letters note a 36 gun ship from M du Quenne’s squadron back at Toulon with no full fleet account. Lord Loudon heads North America expedition. embargo on English colonial shipping. Annapolis Royal letter describes fort alarm and casualties after a French-Indian ambush. Halifax hosts eight ships of the line and four regiments. The Kington from Dublin to Antigua retaken. Leghorn Trader carried into Dieppe by a privateer. Henry Pelham appointed Customs Commissioner. Sir Richard Cox named Irish Revenue Commissioner. John Jennings dies. fortune left to Saunders. Bethlem Hospital reports a woman delivering a child, mother likely to recover. A Stafford escapee bankrupt and jailed for counterfeiting bank notes. forged notes used to woo a fiancée. copper plates found. deception confessed.
News from Madrid Hamburg Marseilles and Paris notes ships arming for defense against Moorish raids and a rich Indies fleet. Reports from Brest and Utrecht describe army movements toward Brandenburg and Bohemia plus a failed engagement near Cartagena and Dutch-British naval activity. A letter from Yarmouth details French defeat near Hamelon and convoys sailing to St. Helena with price lists for commodities and duties.
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