Letter from Georgia June 16 1775 Amid Anarchy
A Georgia letter from June 16 1775 paints the continent as in anarchy with war bands and lawlessness. Provisions describe northern provinces arming, threats to governors, and fear among government supporters. The writer urges swift royal measures to restore order and warns that without action Boston and the South could seal America’s fate.
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Georgia
Th J Glis
A Aserlon
America
South Carolina
Mhay-Ry
Continental Congress
Friends of Government
Carolina
Great Britain
Boston
Ords
Spaniards Threaten Gibraltar Siege Recounted
Postscript from London reports Captain Corish of the Endeavour warning of a Spanish convoy from Carthagena toward Gibraltar. The Gibraltar governor surveys stores, notes powder shortages, and the British fear a sudden assault. Other items describe Boston war sentiment, privateers in North Carolina, and naval preparations in Britain.
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Corish
Malaga
Whitehaven
Gibraltar
Carthagena
St. Roche
John “Matray
St. James’s
Scotland
Boston
Thas
Roxborough
Wathi
Pennsylvania
New Fersey
Amieriga
America
Gage
Koninpfberg
Lubeck
Germany
Eden-Town
North Carolina
P.S
Quebec
Buckingham-house
Theatre-Royal
Taymarket
Royal Navy
Shele
Deptford
Niger
George Talbot
Guernsey
Jefy
Alderney
Admiralty
Newcastle
Leith
Glasgow
War-office
Redland
Rheumatism Cure Publicized in Old Patent Drops Claim
A Lancashire claimant reports severe rheumatism left her unable to move limbs for six weeks until Bateman's Pectoral Drops, advertised with King’s Patent seal, cured her after one bottle. Other witnesses and sellers in Lancaster Kendall and surrounding areas are cited, urging readers to seek testimonials and beware counterfeit medicines.
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Ruth Willas
Cairus
Garsting
Lancs Thire
F&c
Bateman
Witmerls
Ruth
Willas
Lancaster
G. Parkin
Lancasler
Fenton
Kendall
Sleddail
N.B
Die¢y
Okelbe
Io Jackson
Batman
Letter to the Editor about Evening Post changes
A reader in the countryside writes to the General Evening Post expressing dissatisfaction with the paper’s repeated coverage of the same topics. The writer prefers hearing both sides and cites changes in the paper as a reason for switching from their old newspaper.
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General Evening Post
Fragmentary polemic text on city corruption and Rome
A fragmented extract critiques urban folly and political farce, invoking classical Rome and Democritus. The noisy, satirical commentary references Latinate lines and a historic preoccupation with city governance, revealing a mirrored critique of contemporary urban life.
Behold the City’s Voice and the Mocked Orator
A fragmentary verse laments a Thracian town’s lack of rights and city halls as a satirical portrait of Beckford and political power. It imagines common sense returning to town, a civic voice rising, and the poet warning a fallen pedestal of satirical justice.
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Fatue
Democritus
London
Beckford
Augusta Rais
Feckford
Civic Voice
Rais
Road tolls and turnpike dispute between Chalfont towns
A fragmentary report from the Evening Post discusses local toll road issues. Commissioners of the Turnpike are blamed for a road arrangement that diverts traffic to a byway at Chalfont, bypassing the main turnpike and reducing toll collection between the two Chalfont points. Detected as a detector note.
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Horth Gauneat Evening Post
Rosy Hading
AyLasport
Geatienes
Chalfont
Deteetor
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Fartley
Association of Ideas
Joseph Priestlly
Ll.d. F.R. S
J. Johnsond
St. Paul's Churchyard
Dr. Priestley
Reid
Beattie
Oswald
House of Commons
M.hingerton
Tenny
J. Bew
Fox
T. Cadell
Strand
Ater
Bath
Edward Barry
Rae
Repysl College of Physicans
Royal Society
Long-Acre
Myr
Barchei
Jewe Ier
Cutler
Dare
Iona
Cornhill
Postscript
Portsmouth
Jamaica
Mr. Stowe
Ketter
Plymouth
Cornwall
Rhar Corps
Weileas
Lord Mansheld
Gondhall
Paris
Leaf
Whitechapel
Kingston Upon Hull
John Tranmoor
Samuel Roxby
Gorly
Yorkshire
Solomon Pickstone
Whitefield
Manchester
Weaver
John Jackson
Ringley-bridge
Hart
Sheri
Mayo
Rome
Lat. x
Tribunal
Pole
City
Kentish Poll
Seridderas
Morrow
India
Fae
Grfar
India Bonds
Fewti
T. Becket
Adelphi
Eake
Fleet Street
Vache's
Alban
Pyesipgl
England
Adams
Harper
Robert Bertie
Oxford
Thomas's Hospital
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