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Newspaper
General Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Aug 01, 1771
Page
3
In a witty exchange at Raneégé a young woman laments dress flaws and social constraints. A sly gentleman jokes that married women flirt most, leaving her pondering men and marriage while she endures fashionable pressures and public scorn.
A fragment recounts Monk later Duke of Albemarle in the Tower and Nan Clarges a blacksmiths daughter who aided him in want. She bore him a child and faced a shared murky reputation with her mother a barber and woman of ill fame. A ballad sang of five women barbers from Drury Lane.
A lyric in four parts describes longing for exclusive love over fleeting flattery. The speaker rejects social ascent and seeks a single devoted soulmate, preferring a tranquil home and steady affection to public praise and wanderings.
This item announces This Day printed for the Authors and sold by multiple booksellers across Great Britain and Ireland. It notes sixpence price, a frontispiece and three copper plates, with a Dr Arne song. It mentions comic and serious subjects drawn by capital engravers.
In a daring series of clashes around Maydan and Zamotki Pulawski led attacks against Russian and allied forces, routing multiple detachments, capturing prisoners and booty, and forcing a retreat as Confederates endured heavy casualties. The engagement ended with Poles withdrawing in orderly fashion amid greater enemy pressure. Rome reports the Pope sending a brief permitting Nicola Pagliarini to return to the city after exile for anti Jesuit writings.
In August at Bagbury near Evercreech a youth, servant to Farmer Stokes, climbed a high elm to take a goldfinch nest. A dead limb broke, he fell, and was found dead with a broken neck and fractured skull.
Arrivals at Dover Lancaster Dumfries Liverpool Tobago Newfounland Falmouth Portsmouth Cadiz and New York list ships and origins including Susanna La Mar from Virginia Horatio Scougal from Maryland and Diana from Lendor with other vessels and routes noted. The report records ships departing Jamaica Guernsey Casro Bay and River passages aboard several vessels.
London reports indicate the Duke of Gloucester plans to depart Thursday for Portsmouth to board HMS Venus on a voyage to the Mediterranean. Banks, one of the Transit of Venus expedition members, was introduced to the King at St James's. Sir Charles Hardy seeks a Plymouth seat in Parliament, expected elected unopposed. The Lord Mayor plans an elegant Mansion House entertainment for Distinction and Aldermen. Extracts from Amsterdam and Paris discuss a 60 million florin loan and palace precautions for the King's safety. Voltaire entertains two English visitors at Ferney before presenting them to a lively company of actresses. Ship news tracks Vansittart, Northington, Worcester, and others arriving or sailing, with losses and cargo updates. Local vignettes include Hackney venison feast, Wilkes controversy, a ball dispute, and various petty crimes and accidents.
An apothecary hours later discovers a bed and bedding carried home by a man who believed he was buying it at auction. The offender had hidden the hidden load, thinking he was reclaiming it from an apothecary. The scene ends with the apothecary aiding the man to depart with his mistaken prize. Promotions and marriages follow in a separate notice, along with deaths at South Audley Street and Hotwells.
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