BV 2: London Chronicle July – December 1762
July - August - September - October - November - December
July 1762
July 1 Attempted suicide by hanging / "Pleasant Story of an Indian"
July 3 Man drowns himself in well / Cherokee Chief / Northwest Passage / Description of Arts in London / Reader letter on meaning of birth in picking King's servants / Woman beats up two men / Metyard murder of two apprentices / Cabinet journeymen go back to work
July 6 Peace Rumor / Tree rooting machine / Thorough description of Ranelagh Rotunda and Gardens / General Monckton
July 8 Cherokee Chiefs / Metyard Murderers / Peace feeler
July 10 Sloop Jamaica - picked up at sea with no living persons aboard / First paper for printing / Snoring in bed / A "cutting out" feat
July 13 A "Maiden's" Story / Montreal Indians / Massachusetts Howe Memorial
July 15 The Major Rogers Ship / Tontine and Election / Article - London too big / Cherokees / Murder
July 17 Meteors / Ship Centurion
July 20 News from Charleston
* Edition # 871 and # 872 missing *
July 27 Prizes: A Proclamation / Poe-type story / Letter from Philadelphia / Public Apology / Cherokees
July 29 News from America: Charleston, whaling, and Fielding / Budget - drinking and "seeing life" / Charleston Indians / Lord Bute
July 31 Dreadful Flood in 1607 / Pitt / Letter from Philadelphia: General Monckton and William Johnson / Catherine assumes Russian throne in Revolution
August 1762
Aug. 3 No significant news
* Edition # 877 missing *
Aug. 7 Robert Malpole / Philosophy and Architecture / Father to Daughter
Aug. 10 Rules for bad horsemen / Letter from Philadelphia: Indians mistreated / Theater news / A Prince is born / The Russian Revolution
Aug. 12 A Prince is born / Mrs. Pope dies at 106 / Walked 100 miles in less than 24 hours / John Rivington
Aug. 14 Newfoundland / New York
Aug. 17 America (quotation from Franklin) / Boy shot with unarmed gun / Letters from America / Baron de Murechausen
Aug. 19 America - from the South Carolina Gazette / A party / Why all this trade and commerce / List of ships in Cuba / Ben Franklin / Ad to clear a scandal
Aug. 21 America and Murechausen / Major Rogers and Detroit / Letter from Charlestown / Traffic / Lady Mary Whortley Mountagu dies aged near 80 / Enlistment trick / America / Marlborough married / Peace probable / Canada ceded to Britain / Martinique and Guadeloupe ceded to France
Aug. 24 America - Cherokees and Charleston / Provinces should act in concert in Indian Affairs / Voltaire / Catherine the Great's Manifesto / Chimney sweep loses son / Defense of the Retention of Cuba / William Franklin appointed governor of New Jersey / Cherokee kings / Longitude
Aug. 26 Prince of Wales' cradle / Lieutenant Colonel Burgoyne / Long letter about Russia and Catherine the Great
Aug. 28 An Address on the Prince's birth / Pennsylvania Land Company / Details of the Peace Treaty / Lord Bute to be Lord Chamberlain / Dog steals fowls / Annual music festival including new Handel piece
Aug. 31 Voltaire letter / Education / Life of John Rook, a wealthy gardener / Paris executions - broken on wheel / Irish centurions
September 1762
Sept. 2 Comments on Bute and the Peace Treaty / Fashions / Window tax
Sept. 4 Woman tries suicide / First report on the surrender of Havannah / Ancient grave found / French viewpoints on peace and possible future French victory (prophetic) / Man tries to swallow whole egg and dies / Opinion on peace treaty - "Let's get Louisiana"
Sept. 7 West Indies / Death by wasps / "Boys can shift better than girls" / Reflections by Gentlemen from Martinco, Guadeloupe, and St. Lucia / Let us have peace / Extra! Havannah Attacked
* Edition # 892 missing *
Sept. 11 Journal of Siege of Havannah / Prince of Wales christened / William Franklin (illegitimate son of Benjamin Franklin) is Governor of New Jersey / An Incendiary letter / Order of Guild Parade / Scheme to get poultry / Deserters by height
Sept. 14 Suggestion of 17-year truce / Article on peace treaty - judge for yourself from the facts / Young ladies and boarding school
Sept. 16 Dear Abby / Deserters by height / Peace comparisons / "Ugly Joe," the pickpocket / Rousseau's parallel between Christ and Socrates
Sept. 18 Reference to cremation / Knights of the Garter installation / Life in Georgia
Sept. 21 News from Charles Town, SC / Satire / Advice to mothers from Rousseau's "New System of Education" / News from America
* Edition # 898 missing *
Sept. 25 Mine explosion / Burgoyne / Deserters / Rousseau's Thoughts on Education
Sept. 28 Installation of Bute into Knights of the Garter / Lady of Anthony Dickins bears son / Prostitutes rescued / Bill at Inn for Duke of Nivernois / Bulletin - Surrender of Havannah / Burgoyne
Sept. 30 The Fall of Cuba complete report
October 1762
Oct. 2 Sea fight and ship captured in harbor / Letter from Burgoyne in Spain / Manor for sale with interesting inventory
* Edition # 903 missing *
Oct. 7 Triplets named Faith, Hope and Charity / Harwood and Porter Brewer
Oct. 9 News from America / Odd news: Shady Lady, "May and December" marriage, Army game, Dog bites man / Roman statue found
Oct. 12 Amherst captures St. John's Newfoundland / America - Braintree / Walking wager - Tyburn execution
Oct. 14 Opinions on other journals of peace of Cabinet
Oct. 16 Pornographic printer / "Smutt - a disagreeable habit particularly for women" / Assault of a Jew / Jews and sailors fight in Amsterdam
Oct. 19 Catherine restores Count Rumin / Crimes / Bull-Baiting / Money for Havannah widows / "Report of my death false"
Oct. 21 A "wardmate" election / Old Bailey Judgments / Discharging patients too soon from hospitals / Prussia demands 500,000 livre tribute from Jews / The Bedingfield murder
Oct. 23 Sheridan's Pension / Description of Highwayman
Oct. 26 Burgoyne and Lee / Description of a swordfight / News from America / Irishman dies who was born in 1657 / Hogarth
Oct. 28 Libel / Letter from Nobleman to son / News from America / Meaning of Whig and Tory in 1688, from the London Chronicle in 1755
Oct. 30 Burgoyne and Lee
November 1762
Nov. 2 Conditions of Surrender of Schweidnitz
Nov. 4 Extraordinary Antipathy
Nov. 6 A salesman robbed / Articles of Peace
Nov. 9 Amherst and St. John's
Nov. 11 Satire (see Nov. 9 edition)
Nov. 13 Florida / American ships / Treatment of frozen limbs
Nov. 16 Good Diet / Sea story / Killed at Ticonderoga / Canada / An Englishman's essay on the Peace Treaty
Nov. 18 False news / Odd Sermon / St. Lucia / News from America / Tree Eradication Machine
Nov. 20 Pitty Bute / New coach for King / No marriage for woman bigamist / Letter from Merchant - Russian Empress great / Extent of British dominions in North America
Nov. 23 Opinions on Treaty / Bermuda
Nov. 25 King's speech to the Bohemians / New appointments / Spoon stealer / Account of Louisiana on Mississippi / French and English speech / Peace treaty ratified - Hostilities to cease
Nov. 27 King's Peace Proclamation / Opinions on peace / Lord Blakeney / American troops
Nov. 30 Postal service opened in France / Islands of Sadlet Miquelon / A Pope letter / Peace Treaty boundaries on the Mississippi
December 1762
Dec. 2 News from West Indies / Strange love attained / Preliminary articles of peace / Storm at sea
Dec. 4 Empress' Coronation / South Carolina: No cotton! / King's Arms Tavern / Comment on peace treaty
Dec. 7 France to cede Louisiana to Spain for St. Domingo / French and English ships lost during war / The Importance of the British Colonies in North America / Tax on beer / Tobias Smollett's mother-in-law dies / Townshead resigns as Secretary of War
Dec. 9 Robert Walpole / New comic opera: "Love in a Village" / Time lapse of last peace preparations - 1711-1713 / Plot against Catherine / Baskerville / Meteor with illustration - flying saucer
Dec. 11 John Evelyn / Peace treaty opinions / Barbados
Dec. 14 Robberies in ill-famed houses of Fleet Lane / No meat for sale on Sundays / Dialogue - Kitty Fishen and Tristran Shandy / Townshead - Commonwealth Board of Trade
Dec. 16 French soldiers mutiny / Chinese: Roles of conduct for the fair sex / Humorous political piece
Dec. 18 Bewitched boy / Peace treaty / Louisiana / Working women
Dec. 21 The Silent Majority / Socialism
Dec. 23 Havannah Battle / List of London Brokers / Recap of births and deaths for the year
Dec. 25 Christmas at Court / Peace treaty opinions / Humorous "Duel" / France cedes Louisiana to Spain
Dec. 28 Selling the King's Arms / Nering / Highways / America - Amherst in New York / Cut of a ship
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