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Newspaper
General Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Aug 05, 1773
Page
4
A letter to the Editor criticizes a Privy Council table explaining wear allowances for current gold guineas versus older coinage. The writer questions why newer guineas wear equally after fewer years and older ones after a longer period, suggesting possible reasons but attributing any confusion to himself.
In this period of gold coin distress the General Evening Post warns buyers and sellers that under a William the Third statute it is felony without benefit of clergy to buy or sell guineas below their coined weight or value and that such coins should be immediately redeemed or passed.
A country visitor arrives in Westminster with a 71.10s bill and receives seven guineas and three shillings. He finds the coins light and accuses a local man of deliberate fraud, paying him half a guinea to change the six light guineas back to their true weight. The writer pledges to seek the lawful value and warns others of the deception.
Historicus notes that coin debasers faced death or severe penalties in past reigns. Brompton cites fifty offenders hanged during Henry I, while Wykes records two hundred eighty Jews hanged in Edwardian times for the same crime, with London experiencing many more.
A CARD to A B C D compliments his condition and notes he cannot fathom the Dr s profundity in making his Ode rise to celebrate it. The writer mocks poetic pretension by imagining Naiads pressed into sea service and links the Dr s satire to Lord Nelson s sea actions with a wink at George the Third s floating bulwarks.
London reports a rash of items from Copenhagen to Dublin. Russian forces under Romanzow defeat a Turkish force with heavy losses as General Weisman dies of a wound. London cites arrests planned for Hyde Park meeting and local crimes, with cargoes, lotteries, and a biographical note on raptures.
Schedule notes at Louron Bridge show varied times across days. Entries reference morning and evening windows with numbers such as 49m 70M and 11 m, indicating duration or intervals though some words are garbled.
Public notice extols Dr. GOERGSSENNER a German native now in London. After twenty years practice, he claims to treat cancers in the breast and body, wens and excrescences, king’s evil, piles, ulcers, wounds, ruptures, eye disorders, deafness, epilepsy, rheumatism, venereal disease, and more. He will examine only if a cure is possible, and accepts morning urine as self-diagnosis for inward illnesses. He offers daily consultations at Nagy in the Nanaries, corner of Baysom Yard.
Fragmentary 18th century notice describes a “Solvens” cure sold in bottles of 8.6d by Adams, Surgeon, Nog a Prince's Street, Cornhill. It cites a sworn statement of 29 June 1772 and references certificates from St Thomas's Hospital and doctors MacKenzie and Smish to deflect Empiric imputations.
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