Critics Clash Over Pantomimes and Garrick’s Role
A letter to the editor contends that theatrical critics exaggerate fault in pantomimes and accuse Garrick of avarice. It argues reformation favored by critics reflected public taste and notes shifts from serious drama to popular entertainments. The piece defends pantomime for lively audiences while questioning the critics’ motives and the state of the stage.
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Gareick
Garritk
Garrick
Ardogan
Abbarsa
Hedan
Pantechnical
Stustmeviez
Sian
Lear
Musband
Wimai
Essay on the universal nervous frame and life principle
The essay argues the Animus Vitalis fills the whole nervous system rather than a single brain region. It denounces nerve fluid theories, supports instantaneous perception via diffuse life principle, and critiques vibration-based ideas. A London notice follows on Treasury actions, Falkland Islands value, and political reflections.
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Vitalis
Peter
Quote on public morality from editor’s old aside
A reader addresses the editor of the GENERAL EVENING Bog urging revival of a long ago remark on modesty and public propriety. The letter recalls a controversial line about a whore riding in a coach and a modest woman being ashamed to show her face, tied to current times.
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Times
Danish squadron seeks relief in Levant action
Mail from Flanders notes Marseille reports on November 27. Danish squadron cruising off Algier. Toulon orders to outfit two frigates to relieve two others in the Levant. Paris reports curate Gilles-George Gerard of Berticourt dead at 91. Succession includes elderly siblings and a long-serving servant.
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Flanders
Marseilles
Algier
Constanches
Toulon
Levant
Paris
Sieur Gilles-George Gerard
Berticourt
Beauvais
Curious setbacks and local notices mingle in a late 18th century column
A London correspondent muses on Wilkes and potential French paymaster links amid rumors of poverty and deception. Court routines reveal why cups at the Court of Compagn Council were not questioned. Drury Lane flops, Solander talk, and Zoffani vow to depart with him. Bristol letters cite early mild spring signs in Warmintier gardens and a bird with five eggs. Norwich weddings and deaths, and a clerical livings appointment in Herefordshire. Pengetbly seat death, and Lenox Dutton’s presentation of Twyning to Shireborne and Windrith.
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Wilkes
France
Versailles
Strangél
Zoffani
Solander
Cumberland
Agnelia
Drury- Jane Theatre
Bristol
Norwich
Mr. Bell
Mancheter
Miss Thompson
Nockold Thompson
Elq
Ils Adams
Calcutta
Stéphenson
Pro
Bengal
Cloucester
Latt
Pengetbly
Herefordshire
Penelope Symonds
Thomas Symonds
James Lenox Dutton
Josep Twyning
Shireborne
Windrith
Erratea in the List of Setments Daft Paper
The excerpt requests a final trace reading of a line from a fictional daft paper. It reads May our friends ever love Us, wise men ever deem us, and fools réver hate us. The prompt preserves period voice and seeks a concise summary of the fragment.
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Erratea
London Market Notes High Water and Corn Prices
High water at London Bridge noted for tomorrow morning and night. Corn market reports from Worclass City show Wheat at 38 to 436, Barley 22 to 26s, Rye 290 to 305, Oats 16 to 18s 6d, Fine Flour 368 per sack. Stocks and bank annuities listed with various prices and openings.
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London Bridge
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