Speeches mark end of session and Ireland peace pledge
The London Gazette notes the House of Peers approved 24 public and four private bills as the session closed. The Lord Lieutenant delivered a speech praising constitutional liberty, unity of kingdoms, and liberal reforms advancing justice, habeas corpus, toleration, and industry. He urged continued mutual confidence between Great Britain and Ireland and pledged faithful governance to ease burdens and maintain prosperity.
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Tare
House of Peers
Commons
Great Britain
House of Commons
Emopire
Ireland
Anecdotes of the late Bishop Newton
R Thomas Newton born Litchfield December 1703 O S to a brandy dealer and a clergyman daughter. He studied at Westminster, Trinity College Cambridge, and became a fellow before moving to London to pursue church ministry. Ordained 1729, he served at St George's Hanover Square and Grosvenor Chapel, later tutoring Lord Carpenters son and forming ties with notable figures as he advanced toward higher preferment.
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R. Thomas Newton
Litchfield
O.S
Rhodes
Trebeck
St. George’s Churh
Hanover Square
Grosvenor Chapel
South Audley Street
Lord Carpenter
Earl of
Life and rise of Bishop Newton in 18th century church
The narrative traces Newton’s career from his Spring Garden chapel post through major ecclesiastical promotions and publishing milestones. It covers his connections with Dr. Pearce and Lord Bath, his rise to St Mary le Bow, Westminster prebendary, York precentorship, and bishopric of Bristol, plus his late life health decline and final years compiling his works.
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Otebir RE Saad Agk Sr S
Pearce
Spring Garden
Dr. Pearce
Lord Bath
Rowe
Prince and Princess of Wales
Newton
St. Mary le Bow
St. George
Hanover-Square
Jane
Trebeck
Milton
Frederick Prince of Wales
Westminster
Duke of Newcastle
Gilbert
York
Warburton
Bristol
Secker
Cornwallis
Canterbury
St. Paul's
British Bravery in West Indies Afloat
An account of the 74 gun Resolution battling a French 80 gun ship. Captain Lord Manners loses an arm and a leg, remains on deck directing action, and dies on the voyage home. A midshipman volunteer aids him, later survives with two wooden stumps and is promoted.
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West Indies
Lord Rob. Manners
Resolution
Manners
Lady Craven’s Dual Theatre Night In Benham House Wood
Extra and of a letter from Newbery recounts Lord Craven’s family performing Molere’s Statue’s Feast adapted by Lady Craven. The canopy of trees at Benham-house hosted a Spanish themed, two act spectacle with Don Juan’s villainy softened and a secret son revealed in a comically earnest prologue attributed to Lady Craven and performed by her daughters.
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Lord Craven
Benham-house
Molere
Lady Craven
Don Juan
Elvira
Pedro
Epilogue Satire and Prologue On Public Life and War
The verse excerpt satirizes Parliament and public life, imagining a future House of Commons led by ladies and modern reforms. It recalls a prologue about wit and liberty, with references to taxes on scandal and political satire, mentioning France, England, and a shift toward domestic virtue.
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Times
House of Commons
Elvira Fycke
France
Craven
Moliere
Anglaire
England
Vandour's Nervous Pills Advert in Golden Square London
An 1782 notice endorses Vandour's Nervous Pills by Norton surgeon, citing cure for nervous disorders, fits, and related symptoms. It lists sale by Norton and various distributors, warns buyers to seek signed bills, and requests testimonials to aid others.
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Mr. Norton
Golden Square
London
Winchester
van Dowr
J. Wil Kkes
Vanpour
Norton
Golden-Square
George Freenairny
Goodge-street
Tottenham- Court-Road
Alexander Shepard
Robert Freebairn
Cha
Crole
George Freebairn
Vandour
Noxon
Garden-Square
Smallberry-Green Hounslow
Anderdon
Taunton
Attwood
Bach
Robson
Rees
Neath
Downes
Carmarthen
Charles Morgan
Newport
Willett
Cardiff
Daniel Thomas
Cowbridge
Padley
Swansea
Maredant
Fendon
Wace
Tonics and Remedies Sell in Smart Street for Stone Gravel
An advertised catalog of medical tonics and patent cures lists Turlington’s Balsam of Life for stone and gravel with claims of dissolving calculi, Tasteless Ague Drops, Kennedy’s Corn Plaster, patent blacking, Neeler’s antiscorbutic belts, Andrews powder for woolen cloth, Hamilton’s Tooth-Ach tincture, and various pills and elixirs. Prices and seals cited. trusted by Hilon Wray and Robert Turlington.
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Turlington
Hilton Wray
Robert Turlington
Neeler
Hamilton
Spilsbury’s
Flagger
Dr. James
Leake
Vandour
Hooper
Jackson
Friar
Dalby
Squire
Daffy
Rowley
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London Gazette
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Gazette
Newbery
Aust Passags
Samous
BeistTor Quay
Bristol-Key
Abraham Brown
Booxsettler
Christmas-Street
Smart- Street
Newimen
Rivers’s
Differvent
Kennedy
Andrews
Army
Navy
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