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Morning Lottery Draw and Snowbound Tragedies Across Britain
The article notes the English State Lottery draw begun with numbers 44192 and others amid sparse legible text. It reports the Governor-general of Bengal, the Earl of Mornington, arriving in Calcutta and taking oaths. It mentions major Cameron departing to Portugal Brigade under General Tarleton and the Duke of Leeds interment in Kniveton, Yorkshire. Severe cold caused several deaths from freezing along the coast and in East Anglia, including a riding officer in Sussex, a servant of a West Suffolk militia officer, and others near Newmarket and Cambridge, with bodies found frozen in snowAlleged stray details reference a spaniel iron-bound jaw fragment and various place names like Ickleton, Chesterford, Newmarket, and Impington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Earl of Mornington
Bengal
Calcutta
Sugreme
Ajor Cameron
Portugal
Tarleton
Duke of Leeds
Str James's Square
Ickleton
Chesterford
Newmarket
West Suffolk
Newmarket Apike
Abin Olatter
Woodcock
Cambridge
Paulerspurg