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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Oct 04, 1759
Page
1
The paper acknowledges public gratitude for Liberty supporters and announces broadened circulation by the General Post-Office clerks. It urges readers to rely on the paper’s adherence to constitutional principles as a basis for continued favor and trust.
Queen to travel by land with the Royal Family while King sails to Spain by sea. Rome reports Cardinal Por t- atto as Minister Plenipotentiary to the Holy See. Charles III names Lucatelli Nuncio to Naples. Port news lists arrivals at Falmouth and Plymouth and several ships leaving for London and Royal ports. Winds ESE and hard as fleets maneuver in English channel.
The item blends political prognostications from Parliament with naval and military appointments, ship movements, and a spate of violent crimes. It notes a Spanish grandee, new brass ordnance, the 74 gun ship Valiant, Prussia and Petersburgh ships, a French mantua maker arrested as a spy, several military promotions, and two brutal murders near Gravesend and Wrotham.
Guildhall Committee in Long Down on September 12 1759 announces continuation of the landman bounty program. Able bodied men may enlist within one month of September 16 and receive five guineas plus trade privileges in London upon discharge with a field officer certificate. Certificates issued note discharge in three years or end of war and that militia service not required for regular forces. The Guildhall committee will sit daily except Sundays from eleven to one.
At a September 1759 meeting in Westminster, a large subscription was authorized to fund bounties for able bodied landmen to avoid impressment into royal forces. Committees, bank subscriptions, and actions to recruit, pay, and disburse funds were approved, with surplus to support militiamen, and a petition to the Duke of Newcastle to present to the king.
An invitation to noble and clerical residents of Middlesex and the City and Liberty of Westminster to name themselves and pledge sums to support resolutions and subscriptions from the General Meeting held at St Albans Tavern St Albans Street. Bankers Drummond Backwell Campbell Cooper Snow are named as conduits for subscriptions.
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