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Newspaper
General Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Apr 18, 1771
Page
4
Poem contemplates death’s inevitability and the rapid passing of time. The speaker, addressing Death’s indignant gaze, laments wasted youth and the final ceasing of life as the hours slip away like lupine blooms. Each moment fades, and contemplation turns to acceptance of mortality.
A reader letters argues against blanket execution for theft, proposing forced labor in lieu of death for lesser crimes. He urges restoring justice by using idle criminals to repair roads mines and public works, with earnings first to victims and only then death for recidivists, citing education and humanity. He also notes a Magdalen Hospital anniversary meeting at Draper’s Hall with prayers and a dinner.
The Somerset Militia is summoned to meet at Taunton on Wednesday the fifteenth of next month for twenty eight days of training and exercise. Militiamen must appear with their company or face penalties including fines or a term of imprisonment.
Postscript reports a Royal fund to promote agriculture, issuing premiums of 3 cents for peasants across Denmark with allocations of 16 for Jutland, 8 for Sealand, and 6 for the Isles of Funen and nearby regions. Premiums range from two to two hundred six dollars amid incentives for barren land improvement.
London. Charles Green states that on Thursday afternoon a spurious pirated issue of Ness’s paper, printed by R. Thompson, contains a false and impudent account of the General Meeting’s proceedings. Next week a reply will be distributed by hand-bill to the trade, coffee houses, and public places to expose the fallacy and unjust treatment of the proprietors.
The Play of The Winter's Tale will be revived at Theatre Royal Covent Garden on Wednesday next the 28th of April for Mr. Hull's benefit. The original Chorus as Time will be restored and great care given to scenery and decorations.
It is certain there will be no further establishment in the Prince of Wales household for the present and his Royal Highness is to have apartments fitted up in the Queen's House. The Right Hon Earl of Halifax has been indisposed.
Reports note Upper House plans on embankment of the Thames at Durham Yard and militia bills. Lord Mayor Oliver’s Tower confinement spurs public meetings and statues in his honor. Ambassadors confer at Powis House. Gloucester’s health improves and a Polish corn trade consortium forms in London.
Directors of the French East India Company announce a public sale on July 31 for goods brought to Port E Orient, with ten percent discount for ready money and bills drawn on Paris Rouen Rochelle St Malo and Nantes. Also reports of shipwrecks thefts assaults a street accident on Brentford stage infant found dead in the river and a fraud warning about a porch thief and a Wedgwood warehouse theft. The letter Miles Anglicanus is postponed to Tuesday next and the ballad The Miser cornuted is deemed obscene.
The list records bank and India stock prices, old and new bonds, and various 19th century market figures as of one o'clock. It includes entries like Bank Stock at 1 g0 a23a, India Stock at 2264 745 South Sea, Old Ditto and New Ditto with cents per pound, and several consols and annuities at given percentages.
A historical notice from Mr Hemet Dequst appeals to care of children and recommends Essence of Pearl to prevent early tooth decay. It claims the remedy strengthens first and second teeth, guards gums from scurvy, and should be used once the first teeth are complete around age two. Sold by Bayley in Cockspur Street and Price in Leadenhall Street, London.
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