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Newspaper
Bristol Journal
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Mar 29, 1788
Page
4
A British writer, formerly a Christian teacher in America and traveler in West India islands, argues slavery is unlawful and immoral. He challenges the profit motive, urges universal benevolence, and cites master self-interest and a local incident to illustrate abusive practice.
A harrowing account describes a slave chained and set aflame by fellow captors, who saved him from death only to leave him grievously burned. The story, corroborated locally, highlights brutal slave conditions and the ongoing need for humane reform. Bouke closes with hopes that benevolent abolition efforts will succeed.
Dr Johnsons sermons on the death of his wife frame funeral rites as consolation and moral exhortation. The discourse urges readers to find peace in God, reflect on mortality, and renew repentance, urging immediate moral action and piety as the grave nears.
An anecdote from the era of the Royal Family’s ruin recalls Lord Orrery returning from the Marston parish church where a sermon by a humble Anglican priest named Alberry moved him. The clergyman, living with his son in a cottage near Warren Wall, refused oath and accepted Providence’s will, later receiving a pension in return for the king’s cause. The cottage remains preserved by the current Earl of Cork and Orrery as a memorial.
A nineteenth century promotional notice advertises a sweeping Royal Licence edition by King George III era publishers. It touts a multi volume folio set with engravings, maps, plates, and descriptions of empires, continents, and discoveries including Botany Bay, New Zealand, and Captain Cook's voyages, to be issued weekly.
An advertisement touts Captain Cook and modern circumnavigators with Byron, Mulgrave, King, Clerke, Gore, Carteret, Wallis, Bougainville. It notes the high cost of volumes, claims royal licence, and urges buying Bankes’s New System of Geography published by J. Coone, with sellers in Bristol and England.
The medicines are sold by J Rudhall at the Printing Office Small-street and by H Brown at the Medicinal Warehouse in Bristol near Quay Head. Also available by applying to The Newmen.
A month old child with griping pains and bloody stools suffered convulsions but improved within five minutes after using Dalby Carminative. The testimonial asserts rapid relief for recurring ailments and claims safety and effectiveness for wind, convulsions, purgings, fluxes, and cholicky complaints in both infants and adults.
The advertisement extols Dr James's Powder as a universal remedy for child bed fevers, fevers from colds after lying in, milk fever, and other inflammatory disorders, with dosage guidance and claims of rapid relief. It also promotes a King’s Patent Cephalic Snuff for headaches, drowsiness, giddiness, deafness, and preventive health in sick or hot climates.
The cordial, tested for twenty years in the East and five more in Britain, is praised as a remedy for sudden stomach and bowel disorders, indigestion, excess, and cholicky pains from fruit and vegetables. It is claimed to aid rheumatic complaints and gout, with a six-pence treatise offering further validation and medical remarks from London Gazette cases.
A Newbury testimonial letter to Mr. Hayman praises Maredant's Drops for knee pain and violent bodily eruptions. The writer claims eight bottles cured him from June 1785 to November 1785, attributing full recovery to the remedy and urging others with similar disorders to use it, as witnessed by Tam, Willis, and Fuller.
Advertisement warns buyers about counterfeit Opodeldoc bottles imitating Dr Steers Opo deldoc, notes genuine stamps bearing F Newsery by Stamp Office authority, extols relief for rheumatism bruises cramps and circulation, claims remedies for head and tooth pain burns bites horse applications and wound stopping.
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