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London Evening Post in London, Middlesex

01 May 1762

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London Evening Post

Location

London, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Date

May 01, 1762

Page

3

Outward-bound Indiamen convoy and fleet actions reported

A London dispatch details convoy duties for the outward-bound Last Indiamen, Kept watch off Spithead with Hawke and Holbourne. Privateers and frigates return with prizes including the Mignonne from Bayonne and the Jenny retaken by the Horys. Several ships captured or retaken, officers promoted, and reports of storms and other local incidents accompany the naval news.

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Queen’s Regiment Geary London Edward Hawke Spithead Hawke Holbourne Lively Ranger Holy Iland Buchanness Stromness Plymouth Bayonne Page Allen Virginia Puddicombe Carolina Pool Falmouth New York Guernsey Belleisle Syren Montgomery St. Kitts Glasgow Shaw North Carolina Whitehaven The Downs Maidstone Solebay Dolphin Peggy Flamborough Prince Edward Devon William Courtenay Derby George Venables Vernon Charles Townsend Copenhagen Campbell Matthew Parker Ireland John Baldero Ampton Suffolk John Manistre Shotiisham St. Martin Norfolk Benjamin Cook Robinson Falcon Inn Gravesend Mr. Johnson King’s Head Winchmore-hill Mr. Stevenson
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Lottery scheme to fund navy service proposed in London

A letter argues for a public lottery to raise funds for naval payments, proposing 100,000 tickets at ten pounds to raise a million plus monthly installments for five months. Prizes totaling fifty thousand pounds would be drawn in one day with officials present, plus potential government bounty.

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Fea United Kingdoms Excise Lords Commissioners Admiralty Navy Office
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Countryman complains of gatekeepers in London

An old countryman writes to the London Evening Post complaining about gatekeepers at public places in London. He recounts his two nieces offering five shillings each to gain admission to the Chapel Royal and notes the door keeper’s demand for half a guinea. He laments paying high sums for access to places of public worship and questions the piety of the prince if he knew.

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Ealing Middlesex Amersham Buckinghamshire Ware Amersham-common Court of Exchequer Westminster Grosvenor-square Fleet Dunks Marlow Bucks Hounslowheath Sos Cross the Heath London Evening Pott London Francis Wronghead Ranelagh Gardens Chapel Royal Erfons
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This Day Arrived Mails from Holland and Flanders

This Day arrived the Mails from Holland and Flanders. Peterburch, March 30. We have received the preliminary answer of the King of Poland Elector of Saxony to this court's declaration of the 23d of February. The substance is that the King, drawn into the war by an unexpected invasion, wishes to see peace re established upon equitable conditions.

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Peterbburgh Poland Saxony
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