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Newspaper
General Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Dec 12, 1776
Page
4
An older elegiac verse laments the death of a noble figure referenced as Mr Du Hess or Northumberland. The piece invokes warlike banners and misery, asking why such grief endures and requesting a sacrifice lesser than Percy’s memory. The author initials J.G. appear at the end.
Postscript reports ships from Cadiz and Cadiz fleet movements, royal prayers for the king, royal deaths and births, political sermons, and London church attendance. Notices cover elections, taxes, prizes, market prices, and a mix of social events, crimes, and curiosities from December and November in Britain and abroad.
London Parliament notes the House of Lords on Friday December 13 ordered thanks to the Bishop of Litchfield and Coventry for a sermon preached before them at Westminster Abbey and that he be asked to print it. The session adjourned to January 23.
The House met after prayers and issued a writ to elect a Member for the city of Westminster in place of Lord Percy. A York Buildings Company petition was referred to a Committee. The Islington Poor Law regulation bill and several road and enclosure measures were read, with adjournment to January 21. The House thanked Rev. Dr. Butler for his sermon printed at St. Margaret's.
Yesterday the Rev. Dr. Beilby Porteus preached before the King and nobility at the Chapel Royal on a fast day proclaimed by the monarchy. The sword of state was carried by the Earl of Ashburnham. Lord Chancellor and Archbishop of Canterbury attended with other lords at Westminster Abbey. An excellent sermon, based on Psalm 119, urged reflection on ways and obedience to thy testimony.
To ladies nurses mothers and carers Warren's True Original Milk of Roses is praised as the best all purpose skin cleanser for children from six hours old. It claims to keep the skin soft clean and free from dryness with cooling balsamic qualities preventing roughness and aiding removal of sun burns freckles pimples red nose and black worms from the skin.
The Tiskets are sold and divided into halves quarters eighths and sixteenths by Hazanp and Co Stack Brokers at their State-Lottery Office No. 934 under the Royal Exchange no where else or their account. All shares sold at the above office will be stamped with the Crown and found it Hazard's Lottery Office.
The editor publishes a reader’s letter praising C D for critiquing a physician’s poem and noting the satire’s beneficial effect. It reveals a plagiarism claim from a 1720 ballad manuscript titled A new Xentis Ballad and describes the reform sparked by a printed imperial copy and plans for more copies.
The notice lists tides at London Bridge with several time and height marks. Tomorrow at 2m after 5 in the morning and 23m after sin in the afternoon. Monday between 5 and 6 evenings shows 47m after 5 in the morning and 12m after 6 in the evening. Tuesday gives 18m after 6 in the morning and 4m after 7 in the evening.
A fragmented price sheet lists stocks and bonds including Bank Re 814, Consols 3 per Cent 1726, India Ann 4 7% 1788, India Bonds 84, Navy 44s, Exchequer Bills and Long Ann. The note ends with mixed quotes and incomplete entries, indicating a wartime or colonial era financial market page with current quotations and references to settlement times.
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