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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Nov 11, 1797
Page
1
The report lists multiple individuals from London and beyond surrendering on specified dates at Guildhall, with attached attorneys. It also notes dividends to be paid and various royal and public notices including travel dispatches, church service, hunting, and political updates, plus criminal-ward robberies and highwaymen incidents.
The East India Company of Merchants of England invites written proposals sealed for supplies including anchors grapnels canvas tar pitch iron steel shot and shells. Tenderers must present their lowest prices and bids must be delivered to Mr Coccan clerk of the committee before twelve noon on the 2d instant.
A lavish advertisement for elegant superior editions of English language works printed on wave vellum paper in one decimo size. Emphasizes portability and beauty, with portraits, engravings, and vignettes by Kirk Burney Corbould Heath Neagle Warren. Notes complete, fashionable embellishments and affordable sixpence price per part.
From the London Gazette November 11 1797 naval dispatches detail captures by Speedy and King's Firth privateers, including Palma Spanish schooner privateer off Ville de Conde and L'Espoir lugger off Camina. Letters from Captain Dowman Pierrepont and others describe successes near Rochelle Vigo and Finisterre, with vessels L'Aigle Hazard and L'Espoir taken, plus corvette L'Espoir captured at sea near Cadiz.
The Old Bailey in London opens on Monday December 28 at an early hour for a session of the Oyer and Terminer on offences on the high seas and related air allied matters. Proceedings list the case titled Fiala and others with legal representation.
Copies from Capt Gore and Capt Faulknor describe encounters with French privateers. The Abbrauk schooner privateer, four guns, was chased, captured, and its prize Denton was retaken. A 16 gun coppered privateer La Brune, out of Bordeaux, was chased by Dryad and Doris. Industry, from Newfoundland, and Commerce from Greenock were seized or pursued.
Married at St Georges Absembery Mrs Edward Whitehead of St Mary at Hill to DSS Burch of King Street Holborn. Died in the East Indies John Cofline Overend late Captain in His Majesty's Thirty-Sixth Regiment of Foot of Heatty Street Caveaditeetiaate On Thursday evening at Ratt Malling Kent Mirgs Timiza valist of the late Jarmeetialya Elg of that place.
Fragmentary text reports a morning event with timestamps and names partly legible. Limited readable entities include a reference to Wednesday morning and a sequence of times, but concrete actions, places, or persons are unclear in the OCR snippet.
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