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Newspaper
General Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Aug 27, 1771
Page
3
Fragment from a 18th-century column includes Dr Berkley on patriotism with numbered maxims, a letter to the editor urging a temperance nostrum, and satirical rhymes about a quack doctor and political figures. Names like Bickerstaff and references to Venus and an Alarm frigate appear, reflecting era discourse on virtue, public duty, and public health.
Dr Capelan argues that most chronic evils stem from self caused habits and indulgences. He urges readers to study life with reason and philosophy, challenging medical pretenses and blaming personal faults for ongoing complaints.
The piece recounts a series of satirical tales about rulers and courtiers, including a French king toasting with a bishop and a general quip about the devil, plus a tale of an astrologer in the reign of Louis XI and a king who spares him. It closes with a fragment about a distressed editor and a scandalous elopement among naval officers and society.
Fragmentary text refers to a mock theatre piece with Greek motifs and a siege setting. Mentions a delectable run away immured within a castle surrounded by a moat and defended by rocks. Uncertain names and era implied.
A lyrical passage exalts freedom as Britain’s joy and binding law. It venerates liberty as the first boon Heaven bestowed and the eternal day that inspires the people to uphold rights. The text warns against betraying freedom or profaning its sacred altars, noting many would fall from grace if the laws are abandoned.
A Young Lady at Mrs Boarding School extols Wheble s Lady s Magazine as a source of refined taste and instruction. It promises entertainment, elegant dressing patterns, new extracts, biographies, letters, fables, cookery, songs, and current intelligence, all in one monthly volume. SOPHIA.
The document presents an abstract of an act amending the highways law, detailing daily duties and penalties for rents between 3001 and 31 per year, plus forms of accounts notices and a surveyor’s duty. Sold by T. Payne, St Martin's Lane, with entries at Stationers Hall.
Reports from August describe a loaded cart overturning near Haseltonhead killing driver Alexander Park Carter and another journeyman baker James Oliphant on a return trip from Paisley. The piece notes a second fatal carting incident and local anecdotes from Oxford and Bath about thefts and antiquities.
A flotilla of vessels arrives or reports arrivals at Dover Portsmouth Plymouth Cowes and Brighthelmstone from Virginia Maryland Jamaica Petersburgh Riga and St Kitts while other ships depart for Oporto South Carolina Amster dam Lublin and Stolpe. Names include James Montgomery Nancy Jore and Jane Ocean Patusant Spes Fortuna Hibernia Cyrus Providence and Maria with captains listed.
Their Majesties and the Prince of Wales traveled by barge down the Thames to Richmond meeting the Fishmongers barge near Kew Bridge where tunes played and the royal party ordered to lie by. A Portsmouth dockyard arson suspect was brought for private examination at the Mansion House while Lord Chief Justice De Grey met the King. Reports from The Hague note a rejected lottery proposal to aid Prince Henry. Letters recount Cook’s South Seas voyage with Bougainville’s rivalries, island details, and perilous sailing near New Holland, including battles with natives and ship damage.
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