18 Apr 1772
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Newspaper
Middlesex Middlesex Journal
Location
Middlesex, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Apr 18, 1772
Page
1
London Gazette report from Stockhole March discusses a plan to prohibit the diffusion of brandy to prevent car city of torn 5-and. A resolution refers the matter to the Secret Committee, which will quickly report its opinion to the Plena. The Saturday Plena meeting was dominated by private affairs of minor importance.
Foreign intelligence details court actions in Europe amid upheaval. A Danish attorney general defends the Queen and Count Struensee before the Great Commission, while Vienna, Versailles, and Polish tensions unfold. Reports mention famine in Prague, stricter security in Hamburg, and a brutal Dundalk murder linked to a sergeant. Dublin Gazette.
In Dublin April 7 a letter from Antrim dated March 7 warns a Ballymena gentleman to pay money or face Hellfire. He ignored it. a fourth note promised violence. The Steel Boys then fired into his house while a serjeant and twelve men hid inside, slipping away unseen as the assailants arrived.
Cambridge April 17 reports Rev Thomas Chamberlayne elected Fellow of Eton by the Provost and Fellows. Meffrs Wilmot and Pern of St Peter's College named Fellows. St John’s College mourns the death of Mr Scholes. Birmingham April notes Williams executed for club-box theft. reprieved for transportation after escape attempts. Bury St Edmunds April 14 guards in riot actions at mills and farmers’ houses. Malden April 15 inhabitants raise funds to supply poor with flour at 18d per peck.
On April 17 ships including Harmony Coffin for Boston Georgia Packet for Georgia and Beaver for Hall sailed from Deal then for the River Heart of Oak Gunn from Carolina. No ships in the Downs wind north. On April 18 Grand Marlow for Jamaica Amity for Newfoundland sailed. many vessels remained in the Downs and a list records arrivals at Cadiz, ditto, and St Vincent from London Virginia Jamaica and other ports with ships such as Susanna Agnes Shirley Bacchus Grand Alexander Jenny Hawke Sisters Betty Provident and Prudent Sally and others bound for or returning from the West Indies Grenades Barbadoes and Britain.
In London on Easter Sunday the Knights Companions of the Garter Thistle and Bath appeared in order collars. The Majesties, Heralds, and Nobility attended the Chapel Royal, heard a sermon by the Archbishop of York, and received Holy Communion from the bishops at the altar in Westminster.
Reports on royal progress to Richmond and court life, European power maneuvers, and rising prices. Also notes on conspiracies in Genoa, naval seizures, masques taxes, a found infant in London, public marriages and deaths, and a string of bankruptcies and adjourning legal notices from England’s capital.
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