Post Office caution on notes and exiles relief meeting
September 22 1792 notices urge splitting notes for safety and proper delivery of valuable items at post offices. A Crown and Anchor Tavern meeting discusses relief subscriptions for French exiles in England with a long list of committee members and rules.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Crown and Anchor
Strand
England
Sir George Thomas, Bart
Englnd
Ransom, Morland
Hammersley
Pall Mall
Hoare
Fleet-Street
Down
Thorton
Free
Bartholomew-Lane
Lieyd’s
Breakfast dialogue over Covent Garden theatre prices
A family at breakfast disputes the new Covent Garden theatre prices sixpence for pit seats. They clash over property rights, profits, and the public’s support, noting doubled shop prices and taxes. The father defends the theatre’s reform as balancing accounts, while the children anticipate returning tonight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Bull
Master B
Jacky
Wapping
Mr. B
Greenwich
George Barnwell
Miss B
Halfa Guinea
Mr. Bi
The French Liberty and Its Press Tyranny
An opinionated critique arguing France has annihilated press liberty under the Jacobin regime. It contrasts English freedoms with Parisian suppression, citing destroyed presses, arrested authors, and a provisional executive press climate. The piece condemns French liberty as empty rhetoric while praising British parliamentary safeguards.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
France
Paris
Russia
Spain
Porte
Portugal
Patent Violet Soap and Counterfeit Warnings
An unsigned late 18th century advertorial warns that Patent Violet Soap for chapped hands is sold only by the official offices in London and Dublin to protect buyers from imitations. It touts skin benefits, a 14 year patent, and prices of two shillings sixpence, with claims of lasting use and safety. It also notes Francis Sprigbury's Antiscorbutic Drops, with Royal Letters Patent, molded bottles, and claims of purifying the blood and aiding digestion, available in London.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Anthony Todd
Cornhilk
Dublin
Great Britain
Spruspurg
Francis Sprig
Ireland
Spilfoury
C. Sebo Square
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John Doe
Bank of England
Richard Roe
Thomas Styles
gSft
George Thomas
Burt
Lord Sheffield
Townsend
J. Stanley
William Pepperell
Thomas
Ee Thornton
Thomas Oliver
John Coore
George Norman
Robert Smith
Edward Simeon
Henry Thornton
William Mellish
J. Angerstein
Dan Bourke
Techrraayat
Lely Thomas Raikes
Eiq
Ftr
Othce
City and Liberties
Westminster
John Wilmot
Tuar
Perhwicho
Prefint
Nce
Wilmot
George Homs
Bart. M. P. IV
Auperfedeas
Superfedeas
Commissioner Albhurf
Coke
Santae
Lim
Stebbing
5Th Geo. N
Lord Hardwick
Srebbing
Chief Ewron
Even
Matt
Rusticus
N. B
Stric Justice
Lincoln
Inn Hall
Lords Commissioners
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