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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Oct 21, 1738
Page
1
The London Evening Port notes recent arrivals of mails from France and a report from Folland, marking new dispatches and communications reaching the city.
Letters from Bialacerkiew and Vienna report Russian army movements under Veldt Marshal Lacy and Count Munich, with Danube and Belgrade concerns. French Corsican drama is unfolding as Lord Theodore’s fleet and Genoese interests clash, and Bavarian officers plan winter quarters while Turks face limited, sickness-impacted forces.
In Liverpool the borough elected Robert Armitage as Mayor with bailiffs Joseph Bird and Thomas Shawe and sub bailiffs Robert Fleetwood and William Cross. Owen Brereton was named a Common Councilman. A highwayman attacked Mr Reynolds near Hadiscoe. Reynolds escaped after a pistol shot. Royal visitors the Prince and Princess of Wales toured Mrs Hays's rooms and nearby sites amid Illumination celebrations, receiving a warm reception.
In Dublin the Lord Bishop of Rapho endowed the University with two hundred pounds in Treasury Debentures to fund premiums for arts graduates in Divinity lectures. Reports claim Hugh Dickson MP for Cork and local official died recently. At Wicklow racetrack a jockey’s challenge race ended with the Galloway winning. Dr Thomas Sherridan, author of the Art of Paying, died at Rathfarnham. An epitaph lauds Sherridan’s life and friendship.
A remarkable accidental sight drew hundreds of spectators as a hare strolled at a steady pace through Portsburgh entered West Port then up Grass-market West Bow and Castle-hill before escaping unharmed. The event sparked superstition with old women calling Pufs a witch and readers seeking Rymer's and Pedan's prophecies to interpret the prodigy.
London reports Sir Robert Walpole and Sir William Yonge hunted in Wimbledon woods killing four brace of hares. An Express sent to Edward Trelawney, Jamaica governor. MP William Wilmer ill at Sywell. The Whichcote body buried at Hackney Church. Sir Paul Whichcote dies aged 78. Lady Anne Paddy gives birth to a son. Lord High Chancellor presides at the term start.
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