Letter to the Editor on Trade with France and Parliament
A reader criticizes merchants who settle French bills of exchange, arguing such trade is potentially treasonable in war and advocating payment in bullion or English coin. The author warns that exports of guineas evade laws and calls for future measures while previewing a stronger argument. He also questions parliamentary re election and liberty, and laments political factions amid a universal acquaintance claim.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
General Evening Post
France
Dover
Fingle
Calais
Leas
Lord North
General Evening
Hose
House of Commons
Great Britain
Politically Charged Ambitions Stir City Society
A jumble of requests and desires threads through the city scene: W- th aspires to lordly status, 8-k seeks French aims, Lady V-e seeks dental care, General B. seeks a new waistcoat since 1745, Captain S. g wants raft removal, Miss H of Berkeley-square seeks marriage to Colonel T. but he aims at her mother, the Lord Mayor seeks another year in office, and Mr. Wilkes presses for a pension amid broad public clamor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Princal
S. G
Berkeley-square
T. G
Wilkes Cvants
Horne
Wilkes
Proposals for Church and State Appointments in England
A letter urges appointing qualified leaders to high offices to restore reputation and public advantage. It rails against enclosure and rising rents, arguing plenty and feeding workers beat riots. It warns excessive pasturage risks ruin as harvests threaten the people.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Everine
Parson Horne
Canterbury
Ertain
Sapanner
Treasury
Black Hounds
Tower
Princess Royal
P. of Wherald At Arms
Falklands Islands
Laurent
Letter and theatre notice from a 1700s London paper
A correspondent asks the Exiter of the General Evening Post to publish a letter describing a late night coach encounter with a pretty young girl. The piece then shifts to a theatre notice detailing a comedy The Man of Family by the author of The Placid Man, summarizing principal characters and plot, including Sir Orlando Vavafor and Charles, with a note on virtue and true nobility.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
General Evening Post
Piccadilly
Turnham-green
Chiswick
Leaf
Richmond
Parliament-street
Kite
Sirrah
Dinartly
Earlot
Placip
Orlando Vavafor
Solomon Vavafor
Charles
Charlotte
Captain Worthy
Lady Vavafor
Sir Orlando
Harriet
Solomon Vavasor
Worthy
Solomon
Trimmer
Omlando
Capt
Beauchamp
Sol
Orl
Jeffery Vavasor
Mr. Sol
Sir Orl
Orlando Vavasor
Farely
Jeffery
Vavalors
Ferdinando-William Vavafor
William the Conqueror
Normandy
Unnamed Chiswick Meeting Ends With Advice From Aunt
At Chiswick YT entrusts fate to an older aunt who mildly advises against walking home with unfamiliar men in dark nights. The aunt pleads for caution while YT blushingly accepts, and the narrator departs, noting the aunt’s earnest warning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chiswick
Healthful living through temperance and exercise
The essay argues that indolence and luxury ruin health, urging moderation in meals and wine, regular daily exercise, and slow gradual change. It emphasizes labour as natural to man, the need to expel excess via perspiration, and that true health comes from nature based nourishment and appropriate activity rather than medicine alone.
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Helm Svants
Lord Chatham
Lord S—if
Lord Geo. Germ—e
Dr. Johnson
Junius
Mr. Wilkes
Duke of
Lord Sand—h
Duke of Cumb
G. Bellas, Esq
Hugh Kelly
P.D
W—I
Lord Chatham, Mungo
Natal
Ufed
England
Pollerton
Polwarden
Pollard-town
Staffordshire
Harry VII
Robert Vavasor
Dorothy
Theodore Earl
Brier
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