London Evening Post in London, Middlesex

Morning lectures agreed for St Michael's Cornhill parish

A committee of the Drapers Company and St Michael's Cornhill met at Drapers Hall to appoint a Morning Lecturer for the church. Candidates Rev Gibson and Rev Broughton proposed to preach in order, Gibson to begin next Sunday morning and Broughton the afternoon. Separately, Belfham of Hitchin was jailed for threatening his aunts and stabbing a landlord, with a coroner's inquest adjourned on a baker's boy death at Newgate. Reports from Jamaica recount a mutiny killing captains and merchants, and European dispatches note diplomatic moves regarding Stadtholder issue, peace poetry, and Corsican letters amid ongoing trade and naval concerns.