Transactions of the Society for Encouragement of Arts
A volume detailing the society formed in London to promote arts manufactures and commerce with premiums for 1791. It notes the book will be deposited by members at the society house in the Adelphi and sold by various publishers including Dodsley Hooper Robson Cadell White Beckett Johnson Elmsley Waller Richardson Detrett Sewell and Taylor.
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Society
London
Adelphi
Messis
Dodsley
Hooper
Robson
Cadell
White
Beckett
Johnson
Elmsley
Waller
Richardson
Detrett
Sewell
Taylor
Theatres Guy's Hospital Lectures Begin Week
On Monday October 3 at ten oclock Dr Saunders lectures on the theory and practice of medicine and materia medica. On Tuesday October 4 at ten oclock Mr Babington begins lectures on the theory and practice of midwifery. Clinical lectures will be read weekly by hospital physicians.
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Saunders
Mr. Babington
Mistry
Philanthropic Society to relocate children from Hackney grounds
The Philanthropic Society announces a move from Hackney to a leased site in St George's Fields for nineteen years with a forty two year extension. Plans include a wall around the site and simple buildings, shedding and rope-walks, financed only by subscriptions for building and general purposes, with careful oversight by the treasurer and bankers.
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St. George’s Fields
Londo
Edward Gale Bolder
Cornniil
Baron, Dimsdale, Sons
Barnard, Cornhill
Robert Herries and Co
St. James's Street
Hoares
Freet-street
Vere, Lucadou, and Co
Lambard-street
James Sanderson
Robert Harrison
Brenchles
Bloxam, and Co
Southwark
Prefcott
Grote
Culverden
Hollingworth
Threadineedhe-Street
Martin, Stone, Foote, and Co
Lombard
Roeger
Lot II Dwelling and Cotton Factory at Watson's Carrs
Lot II comprises a dwelling occupied by Philip Brinley, with a large warehouse, spinning rooms, washhouse and stove, attached to the cotton factory in Watson's Carrs. It is let to Mr Samuel Oldknew, who is to quit the premises.
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John Stead
James Marley
Stringer’s Carrs
Watson’s Carrs
Peter Bailey
William Nuttal
Watson's Carrs
Hillpate Street
Stockport
Philip Brierly
Holand Watson
Cofton
Philip Brinley
Samuel Oldknew
Burke Letter to Ancupisor of Arx on French Clergy Virtue
Burke praises French clergy for steadfast virtue amid turmoil and laments persecution and political ruin. He notes noble birth, religious dignity, and a shared duty to liberty and morality, urging courage and unity against intolerance. The Ancus replies acknowledging Burke’s praise and expressing sorrow over France’s crisis while defending clergy and religion as essential to public virtue.
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London
France
Tam
St. Paul de Leon
Burke
Angus
England
August 1791 Agriculture Monthly Report Summary
The August 1791 agricultural report notes widespread harvest strength with wheat expected productive overall, though drought-hit home counties show smaller yields. Barley poor, oats mixed, beans small but well-set, turnips and cloverfeed weak from rain shortage. Hops capricious with blighted plantations, superior grounds include Farnham East Kent Worcester Castle Hedingham. Grazing constrained by seed shortage. beef markets steady to strong, mutton and veal good, pork rising, northern counties with rainfall poised to supply drovers with fat cattle for fairs.
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Marklane
Hertfordshire
Suffolk
Norfolk
Farnham
Kent
Worcester
Castle Hedingham
Essex
Smithfield
Sussex
Anecdote of James II Before Death at St Germain
A fragment from a historical account notes that a few days before James II. died at St Germain's, upon hearing a verse intoned, the king fainted. The excerpt urges reflection on divine judgment and reproach, warning that inheritance has passed to strangers and houses to aliens.
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James II
St. Germain’s
Glasgow Growth and Prospects in 18th Century Britain
In Scotland at Scotland, Guascow on August 26, observers note brisk manufacture and rapid urban growth. The city’s population has risen by about 10,000 since 1783, with extensive development at Holding on and expanding industry. Predictions suggest Glasgow could rival Edinburgh as Scotland’s most populous city within a decade or two.
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Guascow
Glasgow
Scotland
Edinburgh
Sir John Sinclair
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Guy's Hospital
the Duke of Leeds
Earl of Ayxsford
Vife
Bulkeley
Cremorne
Philip Pusey
William Houlston
Joteph.Andrews
Lauiie Beachcroft
Thomas Palmer
E. Q .C.ittom
M.D.F.R.S
Tncmas Baddington
Wiliam Browne
Eta
Thomas Hibbert
Jeniah Bertham
James Martin
Sien Y Jactson
Eiq
Ittbe
John Swale
Thomas Gataker
Abraham Winterbottom
Joseph Ballard
W. Agutter
Sidents
Jans Sanderson
George Hardinge
James Sims
John Harman
Mr. Burke
Arx
Edmund Burke
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