A Plea for Prayer and Wise Wit in National Devotion
A reader urges the editor to publish supplements to the Form of Prayer for a solemn day of national devotion. The letter extols wit over barren rhetoric, calls for moral reform, and offers pithy maxims on prayer, contentment, and meditation as paths to virtue and providence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Lindsay
Gordon
Phil Ll
Johnson
St. Paul's Ghaorehsyard
W. Charaly
Newcasle
A. Temple
Letter to Bishop on public amusements and morals 1776
A 1776 letter from a Methodist writer to a bishop denounces masques and lively entertainments on the eve of a national fast. He urges the church to protest to the King, arguing such revelry harms public virtue and religious devotion. The piece urges restraint and piety amid social frivolity and references royal figures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tig Bo P Bisite
Aintis
Relligion
W.N
Proposals to divide American provinces and punish rebels
Letters from Lisbon report British plans to convert New York New Jersey Pennsylvania and Maryland into four independent republics under Britain if Americans do not return to duty. A priest burned for alleged miraculous cures is noted, along with Caribbean and Barbadian distress and naval losses including ships dismasted and wrecked vessels near the Rorsharofé.
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House of Commons
Cis
New-York
New-Jersey
Pennsylvania
Maryland
Great Britain
Gloucester
Lisbon
Ferrol
Carthagena
Kingdom of Portugal
Emanuel Xavier
Guadaloupe
Nantz
Apscarthana Keewge
Barticans
Barbadeed
Tiskets sold in fractions by Hazano and Co stock brokers
The fragment notes Spatt Lorreny from 1776 describes Tiskets being sold and divided into halves quarters eighths and sixteenths by Hazano and Co Stock Brokers at their State Lottery Office No 93.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spatt-Lorreny
Hazano and Co
High Water Timings at London Bridge Schedule
A fragmentary note outlines high water times at London Bridge with estimates for tomorrow. It lists stages at 47 meters after 3 in the hording and 1 meter stee in the afternoon, plus 20 meters after git in the morning and 40 mh after 4 in the afternoon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London Bridge
Price of STOCK Bank and India Bonds in Market
Stock prices for Bank Stock 37 Fat India ditto 191 South Sea ditto and other bonds listed. Old Ann and New Dita salaries per cent, bank reduced to 21 percent with mixed figures. Chinese and India bonds noted with varied percentages and prices. Navy bonds and Exchequer Bills appear among the unsecured market quotations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
India
Ong O'Cock
Gite
Navy
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Sadie
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