Wooke's Cheap and Elegant Pocket Library Ad
A merchant advertises pocket sized editions of popular English works in deluxe editions with portraits, frontispieces, and engravings. The catalog lists selected novels, British poets, and sacred classics, noting affordable sixpence prices and options for bound, sewn, or numbered copies.
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Pocket
T. Kirk
E. Burney
R. Corbould
Heath, Neagle
Neavels
Price
Solymané
Almena
Jonathan Wild
Nourjahad
Zadig
Castle of Otranto
Gulliver’s Fravels
Aloran & HametlNo
Joseph Andrews
Ney
Ino
Yelemachus
Rafelas
Humphrey Clinker
Theodosius
Belisarius
Roderic Random
Robinson Crusoe
Lowisa Mildmay
Trittram Shandy
Amelia
Gil Blas
Wicar
Don Quixote
Goldsmith Yo. O
Tickel
Gray i
Fenton
Acattrong I
Rowe
Falconer
Broome
Cailins
Malet ‘i
Otway Eno
Cunningham
Smollett
L.n.horne
Pomiécct
Shakespeare
Johnfaes
Thompson
Dodfrey
Shenstone
Lyttleton
Akenside
Wah
Parnel
Lansdowne
Waller
Neos
Moore
Pope
Addison
Milton
Congreve
Dryden
Abel
Centaur
Blackmore
C. Cooke
Resolución de los Magistrados de Leitrim y Mohill sobre pacificación
En Carrick on Shannon se reunieron magistrados para preservar la paz del distrito y emitir una advertencia contra la supuesta amenaza de la disidencia. Se comprometen a extirpar a los enemigos de la paz y a mantener la seguridad, afirmando su apoyo a la población frente a emisarios peligrosos.
Notable Tranquility Amid Civil War Turmoil in Local County
Avs. Argue calm in their neighborhood despite recent violent incidents and ongoing rebel presence sought for protection. Royal army hunts rebels, leaving inhabitants in continuous alarm and misery even after rebellion is nominally quelled in the county.
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Arklow
Avs
Rebels on the mountains flee as army advances
Descriptions say derable bodies of rebels remain in the mountains with their chiefs, who fled after suspected betrayal. They move from peak to peak, avoid standing ground, and send night scouts to raid for provisions. Such forays often fail and are met with retaliation as they are waylaid and cut down.
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Dublin
Leitrim
Mohill
Carrick-on-Shannon
The Bishop of Derry Arrest and Escape to Milan
Fiorence May 20 The arrest of a celebrated eccentric prelate is reported after his dispatches to the English minister and Sir William Hamilton at Naples. He wrote with scorn of French troops. his letters fell into enemy hands, leading to confinement at Ferrara. He then traveled to Milan with a Republican guard.
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Fiorence
Rome
Wn. Hamauzon
Naples
Italy
Buonaparte
Ferrara
Milan
Vast Jamaica and Leeward Island cargoes reported in fleets
Shipping records list forty five ships from Jamaica with thousands of hogsheads and tierces of sugar rum coffee and spices, plus goods from St Domingo St Vincent Barbados Grenada and Montserrat. Liverpool and Bristol bound vessels from Jamaica Demerara and other Caribbean ports carry sugar rum coffee cocoa ginger cotton and mahogany among others.
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Jamaicas
ST. Domingo
ST. Vincent's
Barbadoes
Grenada
ST. Kitt's
Montserrat
Liverpool
Jamaica
Domingo
Bristol
Tobago
Tortoba
Lancaster
Accidental Fatality at Dorchester Fair Race
At Dorchester Fair on Monday sheep, lambs, and dull pig sales marked the day. A pony race ended tragically when a rider from the Governor of Guernsey's yacht collided with another horse after a bridle failure. One rider died, the other recovered with help.
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Dorchester
Guernsey
Weymouth
Archer v Irwin at Norwich Assizes Damages Won
At Norwich Assizes Arch er sued Irwin a Smithfield salesman for a calumnious report damaging his character. Irwin a Leicestershire cattle drover boasted to Bagthaw of selling Bagthaw bulls believed to be worth more than they were. The jury found for the plaintiff with damages of 7 pounds 10 shillings.
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Archer Y. Irwin
Smithfield
Norfolk
Leicestershire
Bagthae
Sculthorpe
Bagtha
Damages Asked After Coach Overturn Injury Case
In Wells before Sir Mariu Grose, Woodford sues Garland coach owner for damages after his leg was broken by a coach overturn. The outside passengers exceeded the limit, but Garland argued road was bad and driver careful. Verdict for plaintiff. Salisbury: William Yetth convicted of murdering his child under five. Times discuss Philadelphia prison reforms and European views, plus a 1572 Rochelle siege journal excerpt and a Bepton death of a carter leaving dependents.
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Wells
Mariu Grose
Woodford
Garland
Salisbury
Wiliam Yetth
Philadelphia
Turnbull
Paris
Europe
Christopher Juvenal Des Urfins
Rochelle
St. Bar‘tholomew
Louvre
Mademoiselle de Fisque
Ajira
Beckington
John Heath
Carter
Warminster
Inundation Report From Bombay Letters Amid Tappy Floods
An East Indies letter from Bombay notes the Tappy flood rising two feet above the 1787 freshets. It mentions a boat crossing the outward wall near the Morgan and Warsaw Gates, wrecked villages, and sightings of five tigers, two elephants, and abundant cattle. Several cotton transport boats returned with little damage.
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Surat
Gmorgan
Warsaw
Clerkenwell Volunteers Fire Salute and Gun Carriage Review
On Thursday the Clerkenwell Volunteers fired a birthday salute to the Duke of York when a near fatal accident injured Lieutenant Coox by a double cartridge. The incident echoes Colonel Finch’s mishap and warns officers to issue commands from rear or flanks. Captain Scuawx’s new inclined plane gun-carriage impressed a Board of Ordnance led by Sir William Howe, with engineers praising the improvement in gunnery.
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Thurslay
Clerkenwell
Duke’ of York
Coox
Finch
Scuawx
Board of Ordnance
William Howe
R. Norris's Drops Efficacious Sea Bathing Aid
R Norris's Drops are promoted as an effective corroborative for sea bathing and as a remedy for fevers especially yellow fever, colds, asthma, beginning consumption, stomach and bowels complaints. A family bottle priced at 22s is available only at the Doctor's house Lower Brock Street with cures and export orders. smaller bottles sold by Jeboult and Co No 150 Oxford Street and other medicine Venders.
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R. Norris
É&C
Lower-Brock-street
Messrs. Jeboult and Co
Oxford-street
Spilsbury Antiscorbutic Drops Advertisement
An 18th century public notice promotes Spilsbury Antiscorbutic Drops as a cure for nervous, rheumatic, and scorbutic diseases. It warns against fakes, details bottle markings, and lists Soho Square as the Dispensary location with hours and a one guinea consultation fee, noting relief for over 17,796 poor patients treated historically.
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Spilsbury
Frs
Soho Square
Botanical Syrup and Restorative Cordial Offered by Dr Brodum
An advertisement touts a Botanical Syrup claimed to purify blood and cure numerous disorders including cancers and leprosy, with a Restorative Nervous Cordial for youth or old age. It lists widespread availability and a Doctor’s visit, urging timely use to prevent illness, and targets prospective brides and grooms with marital readiness concerns.
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Brodum
London
Bath
Bro‘um
Albion-street
Robinson
Lurbridge-ware Manufaurer
Princess of Wales and Duchess of York
York House
Piccadilly
E.newbery
St. Paul’s Church-yard
Ward
Holborn
Gray's Inn
Jebault and Co
Bacon
Oxford‘street
Pidding’s
Bailey
Low
Cockpur-street
Davis
Cork
Ireland
Bulgin
Sheppard
Bristol
Baxter
Edinburgh
Brown
Tolzey
Read
Vine-ftreet
Donald
Glasgow
Chalmers
Aberdeen
Belamy
Druguift
Portsmouth
Bray
Sunderland
Tutt's
Royal Exchange
Williams
fPall-mall
Boulton
Collins
Salisbury
Spilsbury and Co
Mary -Street
Dublin
Three Kingdoms
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Derry
Leeward Islands
Demerara
Arid
Norwich
East-Indies
Bombay
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