24 Oct 1791
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Newspaper
Evening Mail
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Oct 24, 1791
Page
1
Announcement from the Postmaster General directs movement of items named Pacets to and from Hacjaxastral under secretary Anthony Tudd. The note cites thrift and land transfers as part of the procedure.
A verbose advertorial claims three guineas to receive a legal English share in the Irish Lottery, with details of prizes from 250 to 30,000 pounds. It promises exchange of Irish blanks for English receipts, lists recent large prize payments, and touts Margray and Co. as trusted facilitators with London offices and official brokers.
The voyage narrative recounts Abba Thulle and Captain M Cluer showing a vessel to Pelew chiefs from Medeg and Artingall. Gifts of knives and foreheads spark curiosity while English friendship spurs Thulle to claim dominion over the islands. Two Artingall envoys deliver a costly reconciliation herd, met with cool reserve. The account notes prior Malay proa shipwrecks and Malay hospitality, then digresses into moralizing bone anecdotes about human appetites and theater bones.
Details from Captain M Cluer on leaving the Endeavour at Pelew Islands to teach natives tool use and promote cultivation, with English provisioning and survey plans. Also a Vienna dispatch notes Baron Burcer’s envoy duties, Russian demands from Bucharest, and an Anecdote about Louis XV's Court and a memory master in Annan.
A sixth edition preface from the author of Free Observations on the Scurvy gout diet and remedy thanks the community for support and defends the treatise as experience driven and free from interest, hoping the guidance helps prevent or ease sufferers distress. signed The Public's devoted Servant Dispensary Soho Square Lenton.
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