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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
May 26, 1759
Page
3
Dispatches describe British maritime actions with frequent mentions of captures and losses. Privateers from Spitts, Bayonne, and Rye take French vessels and Sugar trade ships while reports of engagements near Plymouth, Martinique, and Rhode Island highlight brave crews, slave ship incidents, and muttered fears of further hostilities across the Atlantic.
The royal proclamation offers rewards for seamen and landmen who enlist in His Majesty's Navy by the third of May. Able seamen receive ten pounds and thirty shillings for ordinary sailors. discovered concealed men earn forty shillings per man. The notice underscores swift enlistment to qualify for the bounty.
An extensive notice argues for replacing press gangs with parish vestry recruitment to supply able seamen and landmen for his Majesty's service. It contends for public vestries selecting suitable parishioners under act descriptions, with bounties and postwar rights, as faster, cheaper, and more liberty friendly than pressing. It includes related notices on naval affairs, embargoes, and racing results.
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