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Newspaper
General Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Feb 04, 1775
Page
4
A mock courtroom scene with Serjeant and Serf arguing over a plea brief and corrupt legal ego. Judges mock harsh denials as a rule for another trial is granted and the pleading evolves into a comical legal farce.
An epilogue monologue tracing marriage, gender influence, and social roles in the drama. It notes women guiding plots, men courting with coaxing wiles, and the social theater from poverty to peacetime, ending with reflections on love and propriety.
Postscript notes a crowded House of Commons chamber on February 6 as reports on the American rebellion and imperial authority dominated debate. Speakers argued for maintaining sovereignty and commerce through force versus a more conciliatory, expedient approach, with a division and an agreed address following.
A Gloucester letter describes Wednesday tide surging over sea walls and flooding Arlingham low country. High floodwaters damaged wharfs below the bridge, several feet deep in places, with oils and goods floating in cellars and warehouses. A sugar ship broke from a London Bridge wharf and stranded on sterlings. Provisions prices at Leadenhall and Whitechapel rose. A duel at a city tavern left one officer fatally wounded near Spitalfields. Rogers, a Moorfields watchman, died from gang violence earlier in the morning.
An early notice for a portable table combining dining writing and card functions by Thomas Silk of St. Paul’s Churchyard. The piece claims space saving and multi purpose use, with additional inlaid consoles and ladies writing tables offered at low prices. Also advertises a collection of bureau and cabinet pieces including portable billiard tables and upholstery goods.
A historical notice lists high water marks at London Bridge for the next day with morning and evening intervals. It records 38 minutes after 7 in the evening and 34 minutes after 8 in the evening for Thursday.
Prices from the corn exchange lists show corn at Monday levels with Wheat 4400 653 quar, Barley 22 to 7ys, Bye 26 to 28s, Oats 15 to 18s. Finest Flour at 499 per sack, Second 41, Third 335. Malt 28 to 323, Peale 27 to 29, Hog Peale 23 to 58, Beans 27 to 338, Tick 2010 28s 6d, Tares 24 to 403.
A brief stock price update lists Bak Stock at 144 and India ditto at 149, plus South-Seadition at 97 and Old Ann. ditto New at 832434, with bank notes and consols noted. Also cited are 3 percent and 4 percent rates, and mentions of Navy Bills and Bank Leng Ann.
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