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Newspaper
General Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Aug 06, 1771
Page
3
A piercing tribute to Mrs Clive, praising her unmatched comic talent and stage presence. The piece highlights her prowess in strong marked characters of low life, her expressive voice, and moments where she redirected scenes to audience delight, especially in Portia and Lady Townly.
Vienna news says the peace congress will meet at Semlin or Hermanstadt after a Russian envoy ultimatum through Berlin. Ravian conditions push independence for Walachia Moldova and Crimea under their own governors. Plague in Poland subsides as Austrian troops retreat except Moldavia front. Rome reports Cardinal Chigi died at 59, vacating the 14th cardinalship.
Wind W S and the Cruizer sloop bring several ships as listed. Jacob Hoffman Montague Cleator Charming Betty Rowers go to Dublin London Portsmouth. Arrivals include Ann Walsh from Grenades Dina Wilson from New York Sansbuary from Newfoundland Elizabeth from Riga Vestal from Newfoundland Judith Currin from Newry Eleanor from Backadoes Recovery from Rotterdam Three Friends from Maryland Jupiter Desting from London Saville Annington from Hull and Danizick Charlottea Theodosia Reynheirt from London Chadwick from Newfoundland.
The Right Honorable Lord Mayor sends invitations to all Aldermen and their wives and to the Common Council and their wives for a dinner at the Mansion House on Tuesday next. He plans seating in the Egyptian Hall and reserves the evening for ladies, with tickets later issued to other gentlemen and ladies for a ball.
Robert Gunning, envoy to Berlin, arrives from the Hague conference and reports on Bohemia floods, famine, and Belgrade’s fortress change. Letters from the Hague note French loans and rising discontent with low interest. Dr Solander sails, Capt Heath brings convicts to Maryland, and a boy in Marseilles predicts water underground. Crowder's Well unearthed bones, memorial epitaph for Charles Holland, arrests, drownings, executions, marriages, deaths, and a dental remedy advertisement conclude this century issue.
To be sold by auction on Monday August 16 at the Rofand Crown Inn Tring Hertfordshire at twelve noon unless sold privately A Farm and Estate Cheddington Buckinghamshire occupied by Mr John Torney held from Merton College Oxford for 21 years from Lady day 1970 end of every seven years Cheddington lies four miles from Tring six miles from Aylesbury and four miles from Leighton Buzzard inquire of Mr Baylis Surgeon Tring Mr Baldwin Serjeant's Inn Fleet Street London or Mr Hayton Attorney at Ivinghall Buckinghamshire for further particulars
Public notice announces sale of the capital messuage Mansion House at Tarniker Hall Upper Rawcliffe with Tarniker in Lancaster by auction on a Wednesday in September 1771. The property includes farms, outbuildings, several cottages, arable, meadow and pasture lands, heath ground, tithes, and related rights. Buyers may bid jointly or separately. private treaty possible with notice. Further details available from Mrs Deane at Michael's Hall or lawyers in Lincoln's Inn Fields or Preston.
The text advertises a lemon essence product called the true essential salt of lemons chiefly for punch jellies sauces and stain removal. It claims stability long keeping cheaper availability and usefulness on fabrics like lace lawn cambrick linen plus stain removal for iron moulds ink spots red wine and more. Sold wholesale and retail by multiple London merchants at 1s per box.
A Bristol sworn testimony extols the original Daffy’s Elixir as life saving for a coughing, phlegm laden illness. It cites patients John Mugford John Westcott and William Elworthy, and asserts the product is genuine from Dicey and Company at Dr Bateman’s Warehouse London.
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