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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
May 23, 1741
Page
2
A fire and gale force winds swept through Ahersvun yesterday evening with most of the Governor’s House and Secretary’s offices spared by vigilant magistrates. The attack damaged books and records, pieces of Governor’s furniture, and fortifications but did not harm the guns or carriages.
In Monaghan at Glatlough on Monday night three armed robbers in waistcoats and white caps broke into a farmer Kellys home seizing money and goods valued at 61 then abused his two servant maids as they dragged them from bed. A Cork merchant reports a ship from Sicily brought 2000 barrels of wheat and notes the Catherine of Dublin bound to Lisbon was captured near Lisbon by a Spanish privateer.
Stafford May 21 election for Knights of the Shire featured Hon William Leviton Jower and Sir Walter Wait of Bagot with broad support from clergy freeholders and gentry. News of Admiral Vernon’s Cartagena victory prompted a bonfire and beer for the public as nine of ten local MPs align with country interests amid dragoon quartering and wartime hardship. Bristol May 23 Captain Whitefield captures a Spanish merchant ship bound for Oporto and notes losses of several Carolina to Bristol and Jamaica to Philadelphia passages.
A Norwich letter dated May 23 details public rejoicing at Admiral Vernon's successes, noteing candle shortages and a market bonfire with beer. It covers parliamentary elections in Carmarthen and Denbigh Ruthyn Holt, accusations of voter manipulation, and appointments in the Admiralty. It also lists ship news from Newberry, Bermuda, Jamaica, and Charleston, plus deaths, robberies, marriages, and pirate-prone prize reports.
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