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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Sep 15, 1759
Page
1
Reports from Breslau Schweidnitz and Marburg fronts describe Prussian movements with thousands of troops and fortifications. London and Hague dispatches note Admiral Hawke and French plans, siege actions at Munster and Lipstadt, and a Danish and Dutch theater. Royal announcements grant offices and promotions while obituaries and bankruptcy notices fill the rest of the pages.
London reports outline Admiral Rodney's squadron failing to land at Havre de Grace. The enemy raised troops and fired beacons, fearing a descent. Night approach by the English to Kirkcudbright was sent, while Lord Killmurray arrives in town. General Boscawen to command a Horse Regiment in Ireland. Waldegrave and Sackville changes noted. Also notes marriages of Henry Philips and Sparrow to Molly Arundel, and the death of Rev. Robert Parr.
The nobility gentry clergy and freeholders of Middlesex and the city and liberty of Westminster are called to meet Timorrow the 19th Infant at 7 o clock in the forenoon at St Alban’s Tavern to consider measures to support his majesty and government against the threatened invasion and for county city and liberty security.
The Subscription-Book will be open at the Chamberlain's Office in Guildhall daily from ten in the forenoon until the afternoon, Sundays and holidays excepted.
Admiralty Office announces a special session of Oyer and Terminer and Gaol Delivery to try high seas offences under the Act for the Encouragement of Seamen and Navy prevention of piracy. It will be held Monday 29 October at Furnice Hall London, morning light. Future Admiralty sessions to occur in March and other months yearly.
The WHE Committee for Building a Bridge at Black Friars will meet October 4 at five in the afternoon at Guildhall to hear plans elevations and estimates for a stone bridge. The note records the River Thames width at Black Friars as 100 feet and the spring tide range as 16 feet.
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