Queen’s compassion leads to royal child care pledge
Versailles reports the Queen seeing an infirm grandmother with grandchildren in distress near St Michael. The monarch vows to adopt the three year old boy and provide for him beyond relief. The King orders titles for the Count de la Marche as Prince de Conti and grants Poitou governance to the Duke de Charivres.
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Yeterday
France
Versailles
St. Michael
Ape
Tras
D’ Artois
Mademoisselle
Count de la Marche
Prince de Conti
Duke de Cwariwrés
Poitou
Shipping Arrivals and Docks Report From The Sea
Arrivals listed at Liverpool Dublin and Falmouth include ships from Guernsey Cork and Portsmouth with crews and passengers named. Other vessels report origins from Stockholm Antigua Dominca and Jamaica with captains and ship names noted.
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S&s
H - P Nooo UW
CUS
Dear
Duc
Wind S. W
Pan
Bere
Denmare
Jaft
Brothers
Murphy
Dublin
Elizabeth
Sarah
Weida
Corke
Warner
Parsons
Paule
Fobin
Wells
Oak
Hibbert
Rose
Beans
Portsmouth
John
Lymington
Leonora
Goldsmith
Falmouth
Venus
Long
Guernsey
Gravesean
London Packet
Givernsey
Liverpool
Dlive
Richardson
Qporte
Toms
Balfour
Stockholm
Antigua
Betty
Dawson
Dominca
Walifaxs Bellas Srits
Elgabet
Shroud
Villa-Nova
Jamaica
YoCaty
Gom Dublin
Lively British Notice Covers War News and Local Events
London reports detail privateers bringing ships into American ports including Salem Dartmouth Newport and Philadelphia with cargoes in time of unrest. Letters recount actions near Cape Rear Staten Island and Plymouth with Tory persecutions, captures, and military moves. Also notices of deaths marriages and local misdeeds through Dublin London and Jamaica.
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America
Lady Juliana
Salem
Reynolds
Dartmouth
True Blue
Newport
Juno
Philadelphia
London
Isle of Wight
Virginia
Glasgow
Liverpool
Defiance
Revenge
Cape Rear
Coleman
Sandybok
New-lork
Halifax
Sandynook
Jane
Staten Island
New York
Canada
Lord Howe
Staten
General Clinton
Peter Parker
Kennedy’s Celebrated Corn-Plaister for Corns
Kennedy’s celebrated corn plaster promises a painless cure for corns by dissolving the root without causing pain. The paste is applied on linen and sold by multiple perfumers and shops including Bayley Cockspur Street Rothwell New Bond Street and several others with price per box.
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Kennedy
Cen
W. Bayley
Cockfpur-street
A. Rothwell
New Bond-street
F. Newbery
Rockfeller
Ludgate-street
St. Paul's Chuscheyard
J. Price
Leadenhall
J.grosvenor
Chanserv Lang
I Holhorn
Price
The
Box
Glass’s Magnesia Sold For Royal Family Promotion
An advertisement asserts Glass’s Magnesia approved by eminent Faculty and presented to the Prince of Wales and princes. It lists London and Bath sellers, proclaims its purity, safety for infants, and efficacy against indigestion, heartburn, and habitual softness. It claims mild, gentle purgative action without sickness or griping.
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Glass
Prince of Wales
Oxford
I ‘Goings
Guinea
Seldatfo
W. Davis
Rockfeller
Piccadilly
W. Nice
St. Paul's Churchyard
W.kingson
Bath
Anecdotes From Boileau And A Norwich Lady
A sample from a Norwich Anecdote recounts Boileau refusing a Dictionary of Rhymes seeking a Dictionary of Reason while a Norfolk countess tests a doctor's patience with a dropped guinea tale. The humor highlights wit, pride, and social quirks in past literary circles.
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Boileau
Racine
Helena Farce at Richmond Theatre Opens Tonight
A stage note by Capt Thomson and spoken prologue by Mr. Jefferson promote the Farce Ain’t Helena at Richmond Theatre. The piece lampoons foreign travel, Nabobs, and Isle of Love with locals summoned to support the performance, urging patrons to fill the boxes and lend voices for the evening.
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Capt. Thomson
Mr. Jefferson
Helena
Richmond Theatre
Richmond
Isle
Elysian Groves
St. Helena
Richmond-hill
India
Bengal
Bat
Twick’nam
Hlesworth
Ferry
Thomasqueezes
Susan
William
John
Oz Education and the dangers of upbringing
A verse meditation warns that early education shapes character more than cradle upbringing. It critiques parents who neglect virtue in favor of cultural display and vanity, urging careful guidance toward truth, humility, and God. The poem argues virtue yields lasting rewards, while neglect leads to ruin.
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Rom
Sond
Dedry-lane
Posfessor
The Fir Volumé Advertised Edition with Bengal Map
An ad edition notes the Fir Volumé with additions and a Bengal map titled White Centries. The work carries a price of 12 shillings. The listing mentions potential buyers who may be interested and highlights state and dependencies content.
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Bengal
British Theatre Third Volume Advertises Complete Plays
Advertisement lists contents and frontispieces for the British Theatre Fifth Volume and Beaux Stratagem Provoked Wife Gamester Provoked Husband Suspicious Husband with a note that plays are printed on fine paper for owners who paid for the authors. It mentions Venice Preserved Distressed Mother and other titles, with names of publishers and printers in London.
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Cato
Addison
Zara
Venice
Jane Shore
Dama
Eas
Patt Pennert
Henry V
A Hill
Amphitryon
King Lear
George Barnwell
T Mosher
London
T. Lowndes
Caflun
W Nicoll
S. Bladén
Advert for Patent Medicines and Tonics in Britain
A fragment lists various medicines available at a warehouse with prices in pence and shillings. Items include Dr Andersons True Scots Pills, Dr Godfrey's Cordial, Daffy's Elixir, Bullock's Cordial, Ratcliff's Purging Elixir, Hatfield's Tincture, Hooper Female Pills, Bateman's Spirits, and Stouben's Gastric Elixir. It warns buyers to request Jackson's Genuine Medicines and to beware impositions.
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Turlington
Martha Wray
Rece
Hilton Wray
Suseessors
Mar
Robert Turlington
Orieginal
King's- Artes
Ata Rirchin-laney London
Petons
Lefe
Flilton Wray
Robert Tartington
Daffy
Stoughton
Squire
Ratlif
Bottock
Hain
Hungary
Lavinder
Rose
Hooper
Anderson
Bateman
Godfrey
N. B
Mir ‘Turlington
Wta Wray
Thomas Jackson
King’s Arms
Newag
Fleet
London
Fackson
Mo, Co
G. Squire
Jackson
Fleet-market
Jakson
Ova Raven
Dr. Anderson
Dr. Godfrey
Bullock
Hatfield
Betton
Stouben
Great- Britain
Ace
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New- York
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Cuba
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David Laroche
Newgate
Cornhill
Broughton
Gosford Caille
Armagh
Ireland
Thomas St. George
Kig
Clogher
Miss Achefor
James Dunbar
Spittlehaugh
Scotland
Charles H.milton
Rowland Crisp
Ashley
Newman-street
Oxford-road
Moon
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Hark
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Pall.mall
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