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Newspaper
Middlesex Middlesex Journal
Location
Middlesex, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
May 30, 1772
Page
3
Reports from Bucharest Poland and Lithuania troop counts to 40000. Armistice rumors between Russia and the Porte. Brandt trial details with Struensee plot and king’s wound. Jesuit college notes New York library gift and Spanish ambassador visit. Incidents in Ipswich Chatteris and Campden gardener murder case with suspect confession.
Edinburgh May 27. A four year old boy fell into water at Beil-in East Lothian. He was retrieved lifeless. the schoolmaster of Staintoun arrived after about an hour, opened a vein but drew no blood, then gave thick salt water and wrapped the body. This treatment revived him. he showed life within hours and recovered completely. The salt method is noted as a successful recovery aid in drowning cases.
Irelan d Dublin May 19 reports Sir Joseph Yorke and the Earl of Jersey arrived from London to Ireland. Belfast May 19 recalls the Downpatrick execution of Thomas Clingan last Saturday. After hanging 28 or 30 minutes the sheriff and 53d regiment officers noted a steel collar with leg straps that concealed his life. He recovered upon removal and confessed to earlier crimes and aiding an attempt to hang another to extort money.
May 26 reports Panther and Savage sloop of war from Portsmouth to Newfoundland and for money to pay artificers. The Advencure with Solander and Banks arrived for necessary repairs before South Seas voyage. Ceres bound to Oporto and Pitt to Leghorn. Several vessels listed in Downs and at Liverpool Jamaica and Exeter ports with arrivals from London and Dublin list.
In London, the birthday ode by William Whitehead and music by Dr. Boyce was rehearsed at Tark’s-head Tavern in Greek Street, Soho, and publicly repeated at Hickford’s in Brewer Street. Reports mention rich dress loans, Prussia-Austria moves, Chevalier de St George’s income, and various court, tax, and public notices including proceedings at the Lords, Chancery, and King’s Bench. Weathered items include earthquakes near Cape St Vincent, arrests, graft, and local marriages and deaths with prices for corn and bounties on exports.
The public is warned counterfeit versions of these Tolu lozenges. Prepared by T Greenough at No 7 Ludgate Street London they claim to ease coughs hoarseness and chest injuries. An eminent chemist obtained damages in 1769 for selling fakes. Genuine boxes bear the lid inscription Petoral Lozenges prepared by T Greenough etc.
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