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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Nov 10, 1744
Page
1
A lengthy dispatch records French and British naval movements from Cadiz and Brest to Genoa with a Brest squadron of twenty sails, and reports a Prussian retreat from Brandeis and Saxon troop shifts. Mentions Lobkowitz army detachments, Fribourg siege outcomes, and Poland’s stance, plus London and Dublin notices including privateer activity and local trials.
In Bantry Bay a Liverpool ship laden with rum sugar and cotton arrived unmasted after a privateer engagement near Roaring Water Bay left most of the crew ashore. A New England vessel was captured with passengers, and about twenty-two sailors were set ashore. Reports of Dexbons arming nearby and a dodgy letter seeking a horse and purse of fifty guineas emerge. In Kinsale fourteen French prisoners escaped with the King's boat, pursued by two pursuing boats.
Canterbury November reports William Hook the Joyner has confessed breaking into the Heart of Mr Pattinson and of Mr Tonge both of this City. James Hart the Joyner faced heavy censure leaving him deprived of most of his business and greatly reduced.
A long dispatch records marriages including Dr Hawley to Miss Banks of Lincolnshire with fortune, and a set of proclamations for a general Fast on January 6 to seek pardon and peace. It notes the Countess Dowager of Deloraine’s death and pensions to the crown, several local deaths including Roger Williams the tobacconist, and ship actions with Colchester ship crew wages and a tea seizure at Whitechapel by Addison and Quail.
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