Notice to Editor on Political Threats and Public Meeting
A dense excerpt contains a rebuke to a political adversary, accusing treason and cowardice, and promising exposure of private appointments. It references a brilliant meeting in Albemarle Street and notes songs performed by ladies including titles and performers. The text mixes accusations, defiant language, and social commentary with ceremonial concert pieces.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grafton
Feton
Amot
Mr. Fielding
Brats Crosby
Talledge
Junius
Horne
Pen Post
C Trie
Albemassle-street
Christe Penter
Baily
Breatt
Bury
Ligonier
Cupid
Ravethos
Rane
Offory
Burtia Tarmiefs
Plagu
Lady Warren
Seale
Archer
Political controversy over royal authority and Wilkes
George Slade argues against Mr Horne defending hereditary divine right and passive obedience, condemning tyranny and urging constitutional liberty. He cites Wilkes, calls for enforcement of forestalling laws, laments rising prices, and describes hardships in Lancashire and surrounding regions. August 14.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Caliguri
Horne
Charles the First
James the Second
Mr. Horne
Wilkes
Delendus
Johannes Wilkeset
General Evening Post
England
Ats
Lancashire
Cheshire
Yorkshire
George Slade
Fragmentary Inquiry on Noble Visitors at Lord Mayor’s Mansion
A disrupted note requests an accurate list of nobility who honored the Lord Mayor with their presence on a recent Tuesday the 13th, noting Mr. Bras was to attend. The writer expresses impatient expectation for the official roster to be procured.
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E Ktor
General Evening Post
Bras
Character of the English Nation in a French Eye
A letter to a friend reports a French view of England as depicted in the Abbe Richer’s The Natural History of the Air and Meteors. The writer notes bias and suggests the Abbe gathers his materials from hearsay, marking prevailing anti English prejudice in the translated remarks about England’s state and inhabitants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ogtavo
Characer
England
Hear Fay
The Air and Mind of England in a Moral Climate
The text argues that atmospheric conditions in England shape national character, politics, and public behavior. It links smoke filled cities and variable air to melancholy, seriousness, and unrest, suggesting climate fuels factionalism, self destructive impulses, and social rigidity across London and southern towns. It also touches on how climate influences perception of virtue and vice and the broader national mood.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Meteorological Journal
London
England
Europe
Poe Hiareit
Ath Apukes
Tyburn
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Fee Literary, Politieal
Aoe Miscellaneous Repository
Jamles
P.S
Cing
France
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