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Newspaper
Bristol Journal
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jun 07, 1788
Page
1
Bridge Trustees announce tickets to be drawn for the payment due June 24 1788 at the Bank of Merchants Vaticans and Company Treasurers. One third part of the current bridge cost is to be paid. By order of the Bridge Trustees Thomas Symons Clerk.
In Warsaw April reports say AB Turkish forces move on Russian forces led by General Romanzow. Paris May 16 notes from January to April show Rouen Havre ports received 159 merchant ships from England, 148 English, 7 French, 4 Dutch, indicating rising English trade and advantage in freight profits.
The King presents the Rev Davies Pennell to the vicarage of Newark upon Trent in Nottinghamshire and the SEE of York, void by the resignation of the Rev Dr Charles Fynes. The notice appears in the London Gazette May issue.
A Paris dated letter says Belgrade now holds 18,000 defenders after a reinforcement of 2,000 to 5,000 troops. The piece also covers finances and court matters in France, Hastings introducing a white Arabian horse, a Guild Hall trial on cochineal fraud with damages to Mellis Paiziey and Co., and naval movements off Ushant as the Fortune sails.
A London crowd recounts duels and a Venusian intrusion amid royal guards. Major Chapman and Captain de L clash over a pistol duel ended by restraint. Meanwhile a Princess Elizabeth incident reveals a hairdresser suitor’s wild breach of palace security. Spang, a Dane-born Londoner, is held at Bridewell after attempting to see the Princess, claiming to love all the world.
The advertisement touts Spilsbury Antiseorbatic Drops for scurvy gout and rheumatism. Thomas Wilson of 15 Tinker Street St James’s Square London testifies to a violent scurvy healing after eight small bottles, dated May 6 1788, with many cures noted in folio directions. The medicine, sold in 11 2s and 53 bottles, lists distributors including Soho Square and Rudhall Co Small-freet Bristol and others across England and Ireland.
April 7 1788 notice from the Bristol Bridge trustees calls all bridge ticket holders to deliver tickets for validation receipts. Subscribers may list names to receive two thirds of ticket value in fifty pound units after June 24 with interest ceasing on the date. Clerk Thomas Symons urges prompt compliance and notes only one or two tickets may be paid off.
ETS out from the White Lion Bristol every Monday Wednesday and Saturday at six o clock and from the Cross Inn Oxford every Monday Wednesday and Saturday at four o clock arrives at Bristol the same afternoon at four o clock Fares as usual No parcel above one pound unless entered as such This coach travels the dirt road to Bristol via Sodbury avoiding Bath mail-coach delays
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