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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
May 31, 1760
Page
3
The Sae Council approves borrowing millions of livres from Post Offices revenues at three percent. Repayment over twelve years at one and a half million annually. Thirty million to discharge Navy debt.
Edinburgh May 28 reports eighteen men to be drafted from each Scottish regiment to recruit troops in Germany. Earl of Sutherland's Highlanders have moved from the north to Aberdeen for the summer and appear expert in drill. Upon the first division crossing the Spey Ferry, the river rose. sixty troopers swam the water without issue before officers restrained more to avoid danger. A striking display of hardy Scots.
Ships in the Downs remain with wind from the east. Dispatches from Berlin report General Luckner’s raid on Butzbach and raids by Cherokees threaten Charlestown. Captain Baird of HMS Defiance sick at sea, Philadelphia war preparations, and Antigua letters describe prisoner exchanges. Diadem chase results, Niger damage, and a French lugger captured near Broadstairs. Royal appointments and Harrow mastership noted amid Atlantic defense news.
The piece argues the war’s vast costs tempt calls for peace on any terms, but urges while peace is desired it must be reasonable and tied to a strong outcome. It cites past treaties like Arrechs and Dix a Chapelle, endorses a just peace aligned with wartime expense and aims to prevent a new war. Reports from Rome and Warsaw about St George, Genoa, and Tortleben add international context.
Fragmentary dispatches describe a Saxon force surprising Polish units near Relzard in Powesana with 50 Cossacks, a Swedish army on alert, and a Count Zinzendorff death remark. The letter from Leipzig details Moravian activities and a Count’s downfall. Also reported: Catherine Countess of Fauconberg’s death, a London fire near Bishopsgate, privateer captures, and stock and bond prices in a late-18th century market listing, with several ship movements and sailings.
Fywerrevise WywnbDHAM KNATCHBULE, a Kent county figure, reports he has been unanimously nominated at a Maidstone meeting to stand for the next Knight of the Shire election in place of Lord Sondes. The election is set for June 18. he asks for votes and support and promises to conduct himself worthy of their esteem.
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