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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Nov 13, 1766
Page
2
A damaged OCR fragment describes a sale item list with notes and letters. It mentions prints including a lady in current fashion and an engraving titled the Earl of Pembroke at Walroa. The text alludes to a Chestnu or Beis RE and a nineteenth century context with dating hints and pricing references.
From London and Copenhagen reports the Grand Signor recalls the Grecian Prince Stephanitza from Lemnos in banishment and names him Hospodar of Wallachia. Other items note embassy movements, Greek Protestant concerns at the Diet, and various port arrivals and naval works.
A Leeds report describes a gentleman tracing a gang that deceived cattle dealers by posing as a farmer, cashing in on stolen stock. The chase ends near Harwood Bridge with the thieves evading capture. Elsewhere waggons bound for London markets were looted by a mob, selling pork cheaply, and three men perished in Folkestone when a boat capsized during a squall. Snow fell in Pluckley and Charing damaging trees and Sir Edward Deering's park. Leeds notes no snow in the city.
Reports from London describe a levee at St James’s and a Privy Council meeting at the Queen’s Palace with the Earl of Chatham present. Diplomatic discussions note Henry William Lyttelton’s conference with Chatham and a potential advancement for the Earl of Chatham to Kent or Greenwich. The Lords of the Treasury convene by ten for parliamentary dispatch. The Earl of Hardwicke and his family arrived in town, along with the Earl of Barrymore from Ireland. Ireland’s Lords Justices announce distillery export restrictions affecting corn, wheat, rye, oats and meat, urging compliance by distillers nationwide.
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