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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Oct 28, 1779
Page
3
An oddly fragmented news blurb records maritime arrivals and departures. It mentions ships and crews tied to Cork Oporto London and Waterford within a garbled report, noting a vessel from Cork and another from London amid weather and reward references.
The excerpt lists royal appointments and honours in Britain, including the Earl of Carlile named Treasurer and George Farmer Baronet. It reports Admiralty dispatches from Plymouth and Brest about fleets and potential descents, plus letters about St Lucia, Charles Town, and Boston. Also notes volunteer corps in Down and Dublin, ship movements, sickness in navy, a murder in Rotherhithe, and assorted local obituaries and marriages.
In Dublin on October 23 a large assembly of Freeholders and Citizens named James N. Tandy John Giffard Benjamin Nunn Jonathan Perce John Binns and Henry Howison to draft instructions for Dublin's Parliamentary representatives They urged opposition to supplying government funds beyond six months to protect free trade rights Colonel Elad Moffom of Kilkenny Rangers married Lady Jane Hewson recently in Kilkenny.
York reports travelers in October diaries noting a group of Independents from Birmingham to Scarborough using their own funds for passage and gear. A tradesman from York who recently rode a return gallowayrum to Hull within seventeen hours favored the same route, claiming ease and speed despite a long journey.
A dated 1779 letter discusses injustices in Ireland under British rule, urging justice against ministers to restore trust in government. It links American and Irish grievances, warns that continued oppression drives nations toward war, and calls for punishment of guilty ministers to avert national ruin. The writer warns that self preservation may force conflict if authorities fail to act.
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