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Newspaper
General Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Feb 16, 1771
Page
2
Quidnunc argues the minority and majority in parliament owe the nation explanations for their votes and motives. He criticizes placemen, pensioners, and the influence of the great offices, urging checks on inoculation of corruption to reduce political vultures and restore national calm.
A letter to the editor argues that smallpox inoculation drives public discontent by thinning heirs, terrorizing estates, and entrenching primogeniture. It asserts ministry inattention and links population control to political instability, citing a Monthly Review claim of seven deaths saved per ten inoculations and railing against the gentry’s dependence on court favor.
A letter from Amicus asserts Deborah’s anecdotes are false. He defends a gentleman of real fortune who brought money to business, and a house of high standing, alongside a fortune from a Mrs. with a reputable father. He asks readers to distrust the rest of Deborah’s claims.
A letter to the editor defends a lady’s fortune against gossip tied to a courtly affair while a separate account recounts a Masquerade scene and a farmer’s comic observations about Parliament and country life. The text also traces the career of a Scottish physician and diplomat linked to Prussia, noting his service to George II and his dignified conduct.
A late 18th century account recounts the marriage of William Mitchell, son of a St. Giles minister, to a heiress daughter from a 1600l yearly fortune. The union, arranged in 1715 when Mitchell was eleven, produced a troubled life and the elder spouse’s death in childbirth, shaping Mitchell’s later withdrawal from law and his ties to northern nobility and Edinburgh scholars.
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