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A garbled OCR snippet mentions Britannia and Western Brown Providense halls amid unreadable phrases and stray names, yielding an unclear historical item with no coherent event or date.
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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Sep 12, 1778
Page
3
A garbled OCR snippet mentions Britannia and Western Brown Providense halls amid unreadable phrases and stray names, yielding an unclear historical item with no coherent event or date.
A deserter named Mei was executed before a large royal encampment crowd. Lieutenant-General Keppel granted a pardon on condition of lifetime service on the Senegal coast, amid praised humanity by Colonel Williamson and officers.
An express arrived Sunday morning to Lord Germaine with dispatches from Lord Howe and General Clinton of great importance. Capt Winter of the Hannah reports Howe assembling 15 ships for 40 guns plus 20 frigates and fireships, aiming to strike near the Delaware. Byron’s fleet and Keppel’s squadron are observed in pursuit, with claims of victory and plans to sail by early August in search of d Estaing.
Dispatches describe Keppel’s fleet maneuvering near Brest and plans for a joint French Spanish operation. Reports also note a transport fleet captured near Ireland, British successes against French privateers, and arrivals of Jamaica and Lisbon fleets at Bristol and Portsmouth.
From the London Gazette Sept 12 1778 a notice proclaims the death of Sir Charles Sedley Baronet late MP for Nottingham and that a new writ will be issued for a Burgess to serve in Parliament for Nottingham within fourteen days after publication. FL Norton Speaker. Additional items from Vienna and Berlin report movements of Marshal Laudon and Russian and Austrian forces with headquarters shifting between Bleiswedel Nenarchlofs Cormanes and Munich gratz and other locations as of late August and September.
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