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Newspaper
Bristol Journal
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jan 20, 1787
Page
4
A reflective piece on secrecy contrasts King Midas with modern confidences. It explores how secrets arise from vanity and complaint, how whispers travel, and how both women and men reveal private thoughts to trusted confidants, often sparking scandal and social consequence.
A reflective essay on how lovers claim secrecy while revealing confidences to many. It contrasts youth’s talkativeness with older restraint, notes the harms when vanity mocks true trust, and urges careful promise keeping. One confidant suffices for sympathy, and true loyalty is inner, between a person and their own soul.
The notice proclaims a state lottery beginning February 12 1787 with substantial capital prizes and a Bank of England secured collateral. It lists numerous prize allocations to named individuals in Ipswich Leicester Loddon Cambridge and other places, and urges early subscription through Earce and Co. Cornhill Fleet Street.
Advertisement from Shergold in Bristol offers a lottery scheme with a sixteenth share priced at one guinea, promising all prizes and a full refund if undrawn by the drawing date. It details two to one odds, two blanks to a prize, and various prize levels up to 20,000 pounds, with subscriptions and renewals, security, and mail handling from Lombard Street and Fleet Street.
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