Elegy for a departed friend and youth’s untimely fate
A reader asks to publish a funeral elegy lamenting the death of a young man lost to consumption. The piece blends mourning with reflections on youth, virtue, parental grief, and the transient nature of life, praising innocence and urging heedfulness to time. A separate note extols metal rod security for buildings, citing North American experience over eighteen years and urging vestries to adopt protection for churches and congregations.
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Fage
Aseburton
North America
Atlantic
Anecdotes and Royal and Military Gossip From Hertfordshire and Europe
A fragment from an 18th century postscript recalls a Hertfordshire concert incident where a mediator offered to stand as second to a controversial clergyman. It muses on exchanging soldiers for parsons and imagines valour and peaceable clergy in a future arrangement. Reports also note Prince William Henry’s birthday observance at Kew, Vienna talks with the King of Prussia, Russian troop movements in Poland, and a sparse Swedish court retinue arriving at a spa.
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Gentlemen of the Law
Ec Tt
Lawyer’s
Ora General Repository
Society of Gentlemen of the Middle
Prince
Hertfordshire
Divine
Parsons
London
William Henry
Kew
Vienna
Prussia
Poland
Count de Romanzow
Sweden
Locka
Ships report Bengal victory and Poland crisis in August dispatches
From Brussels and Paris via Madrid and Warsaw a mix of naval news, political upheaval, and royal mercy. Reports claim Marathas defeated the English in Bengal with heavy losses, while a Polish plot led to a king's emotional plea for clemency yet firm pardon for conspirators. Descriptions of despatches from Hudson Bay to Gibraltar note Eskimaux and Greenland links, and a Norwich market price update alongside local crimes, storms, and executions.
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Peterapurpa
Brussels
Flanders
Paris
Chile
America
Warsaw
Hall of Justice
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Evenree Poss
The
Grwraat Evaxine Post
S R
Thomas Lyttelton
J. Williams
Micro
Fiett-street
Postscript
Baitor
General Evenine Post
Eee
Out of Hertfordshire
Wealli LI Twill
Hesse-Darmstadt
Caf Drea Il
Gibraltar
Minorca
Algiers
Amterdam
Hudson’s Bay
Phipps
Terra de Labradore
Greenland
Wormius
Labradore
Davis
Streights
Cambridge
Norfolk
Shrewsbury Assizes
Elizabeth Higgs
Fleming
Chelmsford
Robert Fletcher
East India Company
Rockingham
Harbilton
Hon. Artillery Company
Robert Ladbroke
Tho. Harley
Barlow Trecothick
Richard Oliver
Watkin Lewes
Stephen Sayre
William Lee
Birch
Charles Lincoln
William Lane
Keene
Joseph Cookson
Talbot Gorsuch
Peter Longes
William Jackson
Southampton
Cornelys
Gloucester
Cumberland
Gentleman
Haymarket
Macklin
Theatre Royal
Covent Garden
Colman
West Indies
Barnet
Windsor
George’s Court
Clerkenwell
Smithfield
Holloway
Yelteriay
Westminder
Oxford Street
Carter’s
Bishops Gate-Street
Lanthern
Whittleton
Shoreditch
Farnton
Limehouse
Blackfriarsbridge
John Cox
Newgate
Buckingham-street
Riley Philipton
Portugal
Old Bond Street
Piccadilly
Bidney
Tafburgh
Lord Viscount Gage
John Richards
Spalding
Lincoln
Hereford
Whitefoot
Edinburgh
James Boswell
Samuel Johnson
Alexander M‘donald
Isle of Sky
London Bridge
India
Ann
Guzgaqy South-Sea
Ditto
Pr. Navy
Bank
Long Ann
Wallis
Otaheile
Isfant
F. Newbery
St. Paul's Chircayard
Francis Drake
Banks
Solander
Vok
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