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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Oct 14, 1779
Page
3
From the camp near Gibraltar dated Sept 14 the enemy fired on our lines from Moorish Tower and adjacent batteries killing one man and a horse, with a brisk exchange diminishing after ten o’clock. A Jamaica Port Royal letter notes a large Spanish fleet off Havana.
Shipping items list vessels sailing from Deal Ostend Cardff Manx Cadiz and Newfoundland with names including Dunkirk Fairy Beaver Lynx Zphyr Racer Alive Elizabeth Active Kefclurio Bury Sprightly Wells Hake Glenhill Grace Little Jorn Elizabeth Badcock Portsmouth Chathasi Dixon Belfasti Cork Newhaven Collingwood Poole Juffron Henrietta Friendship Moor Priscilla Daverton Newry N S De Las Merudas Bazaute Polly Merch Limerick and more from London and ports.
A London letter claims Paul Jones and his ships arrived at the Texel. Sir Joseph Yorke requests their surrender but is denied. The piece covers French troop movements, naval manpower changes, and prisonerships tied to ongoing hostilities, with various ship arrivals and mutterings about captains and exchanges.
An 18th century advertisement promotes an extensive array of waterproof items by Samuel Lund at his original OIl Stk Loea and Unitrelia Warehs in Strand Londn. It highlights oil silk boots gloves knee caps and elbow coverings along with cloaks hats caps aprons and shirts. The notice warns buyers to note the correct exhibit as misdirection has occurred.
An old advertisement boasts ready made hair cushions and wigs by Andrew Gough at Parernotter street St Pauls, claiming quick, neat styling without frequent dressing. It promotes life like full hairpieces, catering to ladies unable to spend long hours on hair, with hairdressing by top harddressers.
A pamphlet discusses alternatives to recruiting for Great Britain’s forces under an act of Parliament. It offers counties a ballot based proportion to furnish recruits or parish assessments to fund a Volunteer Affiliation, with thoughts on improving impress for the Navy. By Ames Cochran, chaplain to the Eighty-Second Regiment. Printed by Dixwell and sold at multiple London outlets.
By ALUMNUS. Printed for T. Vallance, No. 1205 Cheapside, and Alex. Hog, No. 16, Paternofter-row, and sold by Messrs. Pearson and Rollason, in Birmingham. The above Remarks will be found highly interesting to the religious world in general, particularly to those residing in Birmingham, and its vicinity.
Commissioners of Lewes and Havering districts request and appoint a meeting of the Commissioners of Sewers and General Court of Sewers to be held on Tuesday the 19th at the Green Man in Great Iword Essex. Dearl y announces the meeting under seal and in pursuance of authority.
An advertisement details a dubious plan by Mr Sharman offering Half Guinea Lottery Policies with multiple prize options. It claims high odds of winning, listing potential prizes up to one thousand pounds and twenty thousand pounds, with several locations selling tickets and bank receipts cited for legitimacy.
A London bookseller notices a winter catalogue listing History Antiquities Voyages Travels Novels Romances Poetry Plays Arts Sciences Chemistry Alchemy and more. Books and catalogues are for sale at 46 Chilwell Street Moor Fields and other shops, with full value printed and exchange possible. Denis and Son and Masons advertise near Fleet Street and Croxton Streets.
An 18th century London notice promotes a four volume collection of prologues and epilogues by major dramatists including Shakespeare, Dryden, Congreve, Pope and Garrick. Elegantly printed frontispiece, preface by R Griffiths, price sixpence, FieldingWalker publishers, sale through booksellers in Great Britain.
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