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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Mar 31, 1753
Page
1
Long dispatches from Stockholm, Venice, Lisbon, Paris and Berlin detail military moves finance and diplomacy. Reports include Russian and Turkish tensions in Ukraine, Prussia Britsh loan discussions, Silesia dispute, African slave uprisings, and upcoming French parliaments with large future camps and campaigns.
Bristol reports the death of Sir William Cann Bart at Clifton aged, after twenty years as Town Clerk. Also noted are criminal sentences: William Nation committed to Newgate for theft of money from William Walch, a coach-maker. A Reading report mentions a farmer's wife bearing three children and livestock in one week. Norwich convicts Joseph Allen to public whipping and hard labor for child theft, to be sent to settlement.
The piece notes Lent preachers scheduled for tomorrow in London. It reports political talk in Leghorn on Corsica, Madrid dispatches about the Cardinal Infant, and royal announcements including a Duke of Cornwall for the Prince of Wales and potential new Dukedoms. It covers trials, naval and military movements, parish and hospital affairs, and social notices from Edinburgh to Newmarket.
The report states a son convicted of poisoning his father is to be executed soon with his body to be given to a hospital. Three others face death sentences. Bax ter, who robbed Dr. Hancock of Sailsbury en route to Bath, was captured and committed to the Castle, and he has disclosed a gang of rogues to save himself.
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