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Newspaper
General Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Feb 12, 1774
Page
4
Theatre in Drury Lane introduces a new scene in The School for Wives. Leeson feigns three Dantzick merchants to gain private audience with Counsellor Torrington. An elaborate deception leads to comic applause and a final clarification that clears Leeson of suspicion.
Report of yesterday’s parliamentary proceedings in London with the House debating whether H S Woodfall should be committed to Newgate or the Serjeant at Arms custody for printing a false libel. The debate features figures like Mr. Fox and Lord North, plus warnings on press liberty and Magna Charta. The session sees intense discussion, a division, and Woodfall ordered to attend again the next morning.
Yesterday in Creamcourt Shoreditch Mr Cuthbert Dion fell ill with apoplexy and died. A German, Philip T , a noted forger, was found shot dead on Deptford road, likely robbed. Last week Mrs Rose of East Cowes died. On Wednesday night Mrs Dollar of Winchester died. In Worcester, nineteen writs were executed Friday evening over bribery at the late election.
Long-acre resident Robert Brand of Rupture cures at Greenwich Royal Hospital announces his invention of Boys Patent Elastic Trades claiming more rupture cures than ages past. He denounces current methods as ignorant cruel and asserts his elastic tools work beyond Chelsea and beyond rival pretenders.
A letter to the editor from A. B. P. A. urges publication of a poem that likens Prometheus to the inventor of letters and electricity. The satirical verse critiques royal authority, laments punishment for innovation, and invokes Prometheus punished by the gods with chains, liver devoured, and renewal.
Monday prices at Raub Corn Market show wheat 44 to 48s per quar barley 24 to 29s per quar rye 24 to 25s per ditto oats 14 to 18s per ditto finest flour 40s per fai second fort 37s ditto third fort 44s ditto stock market notes include India and South Sea bonds with 3 to 4 per cent yields and various consols and annuities. banking and bond details appear with quoted rates and denominations.
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