Hall's Encyclopaedia enlarged edition announced for publication
A notice announces Hele Edition of Hall's Encyclopadias with new improved editions and many valuable additions. The three volumes in large folio will include 200 engravings and new subjects, priced six pence per number with weekly releases. Cooke of Paternoster Row urges readers to place orders.
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Hall
Shambers
Chambers
C. Cooke
Paternofter-row
Great Britain
Cooke
Paternolterrow
State Lottery Office Offers Wide Range of Prizes and Shares
The State Lottery Office in London advertises tickets, halves, quarters, eighths, and sixteenths in a variety of numbers with prizes paid on demand by Hornsby and Co. It lists selling points in Exeter, Liverpool, and Meffys Trewman and Son, with shares registered for sixpence per number. Bank, India, and South Sea stocks offered by commission.
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Rish
Hornsby and Co
A& of Parliament
Cornhill
Royal Exchange
London
Meffys
Trewman and Son’s
Exeter
Thomas BrurinGe’s
Liverpool
Paliament
State-Lottery
India
Piano Forte Magazine promotional prospectus
CAPITAL MUSIC offers elegant piano fortes with a weekly complete library. The 250 numbers promise vast music, a promissory note for a piano forte upon joining, and options to receive instruments early or as volumes. Printed for Harrison and Co in Paterson Row, with widespread sales through booksellers and stationers.
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Capital Music
Harrison and Co
Paternofter-row
Royal Academy Exhibition Catalogue Critique
The critic condemns the Royal Academy Catalogue edited by Bennet Landow for its poor accuracy and missing general index. It notes late submissions and the council’s reluctance to add an index, calling the extra cost to exhibitors ungenerous amid rising profits.
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Bennet Landow
Academy
Agriculture Monthly Report for April
Agriculture and c article notes April wheat losses to wire worm widespread, cool lands promising but may fade in May. Soft corn and beans look good with rains, Berkshire to Norfolk barley and oats crop prospects fair. old clovers fail on strong lands. Hop bines strong, lamb fall foretold, beef market pressured by Turnip Countries supplies, prime mutton scarce at 5s per stone. Veal lamb pork down, wool trades hopeful on peace, lean cattle down, Irish beasts slipping sharply.
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Berkshire
Wilts
Norfolk
Fen
Public Display of Portraits and Landscapes Draws Mixed Reactions
The exhibition features Ricard and Hamilton distributing works while artists complain of misplacements and partiality. Notable pieces include Rether firelit landscapes, views by Alexander and Rooker, and Turner scenes, with a striking sunlit sea setting by Turner inspired by Falconer. A memorial by Bacon honors Sir John Fenn.
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Pear
Messrs. Hamilton
Rigaud
Virgil
Rether
China
Alexander
Lord Macartney
Wales
Rooker
Malton
Underwood
Turner
Falconer
Bacon
John Fenn
Lewes Sessions Halt Appeal on Parish Rate Quashed
At Midhurst Western part Sessions the Rector of Northiam appealed against the local rate value set by arbitrators Richarpson and Starter. He argued the living mixed with private estate and the tax exceeded justice. G Lorn complained of mysterious rate and misvalued Beckley farm. The result: the rate was quashed.
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G. Lorn
Beckley
Parliaments leaders debate fleet discontents and marriage proposal
The Lords Commission and ministers discuss the royal message on a marriage alliance for the Princess Rowan and the Hereditary Prince of Wittempen G:s. The House considers the Spithead fleet unrest, with Duke of Bedford and Earl Howe urging caution and possible inquiry while Lord Grenville moves an address of assurance to the King. The session adjourns after contentious remarks.
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Soputa
Hanover
Lord Grenville
Privy Council
Duke of Bedford
Duke of Bedford Agai
Spithead
Earl Spencer
Earl Howe
Bedford
Duke of Clarence
Subjeé
Earl of Carliffle
Earl
Howe
Lord Sydney
Earl Hoare
House of Commons May 3 1788 Debates on County Rates
The session covers Wyke Regis Chadderby Corbet tables read a third time and bills reported. Lord Breme seeks leave to travel. Alderman Ands petitions for debtors in Newgate relief. Middlesex County Rate Bill faces opposition over exemptions and fairness. Sheridan and Dundas clash over pledges, with Mary le Bone versus Spitalfields cited. The Marquis of Zitchfeld withdraws his delay, and the marriage of the Princess Royal is acknowledged. The Bank of England and Imperial Loan topics follow with ministerial questions on Continent affairs.
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Wyke Regis
Chadderby
Bridgenorth
Basingstoke
Breme
Ands
Newgate
Middlesex
Marquis of Zitchfeld
Wige Dundas
Tote
Fig
Pathaitente
Sheridan
Courtenay
Mary-le-bonne
Spital Fields
Marylebonne
Witliam
James
Wen. Payne
Mainwaring
Exchequer
House of Lords
Bank OF England
Grey
Fox
Germany
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Admiralty
Portmouth
House of Commons
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