Debate on West Indies labor and slave trade policy
A long antiquated discussant argues against employing Europeans in West Indian labor, contends Africans are better suited for tropical work, defends the slave trade as vital to Britain's commerce and empire, warns of decline if abolition proceeds, and urges prudent, gradual policy to protect maritime and colonial wealth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West-Indies
West India Islands
Africa
West Indies
Britain
Britayn
Cape of Good Hope
Europe
France
The West Indies Slave Question and Duty to Liberty
The author argues for abolishing slavery in the West Indies, defending enslaved Africans as shared humanity and natural rights. He critiques biased witnesses and suggests many West Indians are Britons or Irish by birth, challenging charges of barbarity and urging humane treatment. He links liberty to universal rights, questioning property hierarchies and the logic of inherited dominance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Britain
West-Indies
Ireland
Mr. Long
Raynal
Murder suspects seized in Yarmouth trader case
Lately advertised murder suspects were seized Friday at two o clock by Whit field of East Smithfield authorities at the sign of the Thirteen Cantons near Irongate. They boasted of killing a Yarmouth trader for a chest of money and were committed to prison after confessing. The landlord aided the officers, with evidence from the master's boy. Newmarket reports a summer flood of capital bets with one hundred fifty blood horses training amid royal and noble stables. The Prince of Wales, the Duke of Cumberland era influence note.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yarmouth
Arnold
Whitfield
Justice Smith
East Smithfield
Irongate
Newmarket
William Duke of Cumberland
Princ of
Wales
Grace of Bedford
Lord Grifvenor
Richmond pig driver completes 700 mile walk challenge
The account describes John Baty of Richmond Yorkshire who walked 700 miles around Richmond race-ground as a bet of twenty guineas to a hundred. Began at the end of July and, at the time, was in his 56th year, adding to the feat’s impressiveness.
Flour export to France signals agricultural prosperity
IRELAN D Dustin notes a small flour export of three hundred quintals to France this week indicating a prosperous agriculture. He adds that a large amount of hay has recently been shipped from the port on several ships bound for the Baltic and the east.
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Dustin
Duguus
France
Baltic
East Country
Far from Plymouth parish tragedy and local industry notes
A farmer sent a servant to Tremier a straw request, a loaded gun discharged wounding a three year old boy. In Manchester, Paisley and Rochdale reports, hall plans for cotton sales were rejected and a surgeon delivered twins and a daughter. A man noted for calculating squares reports the diameter to circumference ratio, with copies in demand by mathematicians.
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Plymmouth
Augustus
MaNcuasts
Paisley
Turner
Rochdale
Needham
Farmers urged to cleanse ponds and dykes now
To farmers the advisory notes that the season nears its low ebb and recommends emptying and scouring ponds and dykes of filth and mud. A correspondent claims no natural manure is more beneficial or suitable to soils under current farming methods. Weeds in ponds should be mowed at least once each summer for better fish growth and flavor.
A True Method of Extracting Hop Virtue in Brewing
A historic note explains two hop preparation methods for brewing. It argues that adding hops to rich wort yields less bitterness as the fat wort coats hop pores, while thinner wort releases more bitterness. It suggests shaking hops in hot water first and compares with tea infusion to avoid extracting bitter flavors.
Laws of Hare and Game Offenses in Old Statutes
The sketch outlines penalties for night killing of hares partridges and pheasants and for exposing game to sale. It sets hours for night hunting and the fines for first, second, and subsequent offenses and notes certificate production in pursuit of game.
Fragmentary legal notice fragment on false names and abode
A damaged OCR fragment states that any person requiring the same who shall have obtained a certificate is liable to a penalty for giving a false or fictitious name or place of abode. The text is incomplete and lacks clear context or names.
Observations on Farm Consolidation and Rural Decline
Mr Pryce of Salisbury argues that consolidating farms harms small occupiers and robs rural life of vitality. He recalls Norman depopulation and warns that merging homesteads into large estates depresses employment, increases poverty, and drives tenants to subsistence or migration, eroding public welfare and virtue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pryce
Salisoury
FOTHERGILLIAN MEDAL HONOURS DR FALCONER OF BATH
The Medical Society of London awards Dr William Falconer of Bath the Fothergillian Medal for the best answer on diseases mitigated or cured by mind, with Dr Lettrom delivering a notable address and a gracious reply from Falconer praising the institution and memory of the late Dr Fothergill.
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Falconer
Bath
The
Medical Society
London
Lettrom
Fothergill
Fothergirl
Medical Society of London
Wm. Falconer
Dolor
Old John of Canterbury Aged and Patient Stiff with Time
An obituary-like verse tells of Old John born August 1703 in Boughton under the Blean. It notes his life of toil as a petty dealer and printer carrier, later sustaining with hospital care in Canterbury after 1768, and finally residing at St John’s Hospital for 18 or 19 years, growing bent but piously resigned. A likeness accompanies Duncombe’s Canterbury history plate.
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John
Canterbury
Boughton
Homehill
London
James Abree
Bexley
Kentish Post
Canterbury News Letter
Abree
Simmons
Isby
Hospital of St. John
Irish Lottery 1788 Prize List and Office Terms
Lottery details reveal tickets divided into shares with capital prizes including 20,000 and 10,060 pounds. Hazard's Lottery Office advertises prize payments, schemes gratis, and that all shares sold will be stamped. Also promotes James’s Powder and Analeptic Pills with testimonial style, sold by Francis Newbery and others in London and towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hazard
St. Anthony's
Francis Newbery
Eastend
St. Paul’s
Cheapside
London
Rudhall and Co
E. Shiercliffe
W. Browne
W. Bulgin
J. Norton
H. Brown
Wells and Arthur
J. Fitchew
T. Mills
We Pide
S- Bonner
J. Lloyd
E. Palmer
M. Thompson
Britol
Mr. Newbery
Dr. James
Hazard&co
Nolg3
Royal Exchange
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Irelan
Country News
Baisto
Jolen
Hayes
Quakters
Ad Bank
India
South Sea
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