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Newspaper
General Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Feb 09, 1773
Page
3
Reports spread that Portugal gold would not be taken in payment. A Worcester meeting of principal inhabitants agreed to accept any suitable pieces. Benjamin Price, a Worcester flax-dresser, poisoned himself with arsenic after repeated failed attempts to obtain it from shops.
Town news reports Earl of Stormont arriving from Vienna and attending a levee at St James's with plans to baptize the young prince at St James's. Parliament votes on navy half pay and secrecy pleadings. crime notes include robberies, trials, and executions, plus births marriages and deaths.
A terse treatise argues persecution is senseless and wicked, condemning both establishment and betrayal of religion. It asserts religion rests on justice of power and challenges coercive methods, urging tolerance as a humane principle.
An observer recalls a morning at Sir Thomas Crutch’s house where two masked gentlemen pose as grooms and a tailor and physician arrive to test propriety. He mocks the nobles for vanity and the collapse of status as the bar, doctor, and nephew switch roles in a comic, morally pointed scene.
The item lists two forthcoming pamphlets including a LETTER to the LORD BISHOP of LONDON proposing a method to satisfy Petitioners for relief and to preserve church peace. It notes a Quarto edition priced at 6d and mentions Dr. Balguy’s recent Charge on subscription with details on publication in Holborn.
A dated testimonial extols Marehant's Drops as a cure for leprosy scurvy ulcers piles and various blood disorders with claims of safety and universality. It warns of counterfeits and lists London sellers including Norton as proprietor and Kearfly in Ludgate Street.
Notice announced that Martha Wray and Mary Sopp retire from business and John Wray will alone carry on the Original and Genuine Balsam of Life at the King’s Arms, Birch Lane near the Royal Exchange, London. It warns buyers of counterfeits and cites the official seal and arms on each bottle.
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