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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Oct 27, 1763
Page
2
Notice seeks W B late Captain's Steward of His Majesty's Ship Botton to call at the Bar of the Jerusalem Coffee house in Cornhill or send an account so he may be heard of. If not forthcoming his place will be disposed of to anacher.
A Field coat belonging to John Raymond Esquire of Chigwell Essex and two saddle geldings are reported stolen on Saturday evening September 2. The horses are five years old about fourteen hands three inches high. One is a bright bay with black mane and tail, star on forehead, clean legs. the other a bright chestnut with flaxen mane and switch tail. Rewards offered: four guineas plus reasonable charges for the recoveries at Chigwell or Austin Friars London. same reward for intelligence leading to recovery.
By order of the Commissioners of Customs a sale will be held in London at the Long Room of the Cotton House on Wednesday and Thursday in November. Parcels include tea, cambricks, fabrics, indigo, silk, sugar, wine, tobacco, and other goods cleared of duties. Some items viewable at the Tobacco Ground near the Wet Dock, Rotherhithe. others at the King's Warehouse at the Cotton House. Sale times across the two days are 3 PM to 5 PM and mornings prior.
Roadside sale announce a manor and several arable and meadow farms totaling 1339 acres. Farm houses in good condition, well tenanted, with potential for strong improvements. For particulars contact John Raper in York or Cleaver of Cattle Howard or Weatherill of Coxwold.
The dispatch from Constantinople dated September 15 notes a major fire at Sewary the previous month causing 469 houses and many shops to be burned. It adds that Corsican privateers captured three Genoese mail vessels, while French naval actions near Madagascar claimed a Saletine xebeque sunk and a second driven ashore. The Earl of Hertford arrived as ambassador to France and departed for Fontainebleau on the 22nd.
In Dublin on the last quarter assembly day the Sheriffs and Commons voted funds and thanks to Charles Roffel and Mrs Roffel for their service during his Mayoralty, while news reported a mob looting shops in Dam Street and Francisciaeer, tearing cloth and terrorizing residents. A man named John Lynch was murdered by two soldiers near a timber-yard. the coroner's jury returned a verdict of willful murder.
PORT NEWS from Falmouth lists arrivals including Expedition packer from Lisbon to London and Plymouth, Young Eagle from Rio de Janeiro, Margaret from Guadalupe, and Raines from Sunderland. By late month several vessels remain in the Downs, with wind at Baltic conditions and ships Signet and King of Fruilia Currer noted.
In London a great council at St James's included the Lord Chancellor and two Secretaries of State with other lords. The Earl of Sandwich hosted an elegant entertainment for nobility and foreign ministers. Reports detail the Dutch readying 25 ships of the line, potential war talk, Dublin and Lisbon dispatches, and Royal movements in Ireland and the Mediterranean, with Polish royal succession and emblems of court mourning.
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