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Newspaper
General Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jan 08, 1774
Page
4
A garbled narrative fragment recounts a tense encounter between a young man and an officer over honor and discipline. The items mention a monastery, a brigadier commentary, and a resolution to meet the aggressor, with themes of forgiveness, courage, and religious principles intertwined.
Promo notices a new weekly magazine to be published with a blue paper, priced 34. It announces an elegant display type cast for a major work by Mei Bayne and Son in Edinburgh, printed for R Snagg and A Grant with distribution by booksellers and news carts in Great Britain.
A fragment from a 19th century public moral dispute rails against a festive display deemed blasphemous. The text condemns a secular excess and indicts a nobleman for abandoning his wife, then mocks drunken revelry and calls for religious chastisement of the “old sinner.”
Mail from Holland and Paris reports Russian forces joining the grand army, then occupying evacuated areas. Severe storms cause prodigious damage in Europe with record hurricanes and costly ship losses. A female impostor accused of sorcery is confined after sensational reports in Sollons.
On Friday a commission at Stoneleigh Abbey examined the sanity of the Right Hon. Lord Leigh. A Warwickshire jury found him of sound mind but unfit to manage his estate and fortunes, reflecting on his years of incapacity.
A report from London notes multiple councils to meet at St James's and the Cockpit to discuss a speech by a Great Personage. Dispatches from Sir John Dick reach Lord Dartmouth, with Queen's benevolence funding relief in London and Westminster.
High water warnings for Londor Bridge set for early tomorrow and afternoon with varying tides. Theatrical entertainments listed include Dasey Laws The Schools for Lovetts The Lying Valet and The Christmas Tale with The Deuce in Him Cavant Garden Jane Shore and The Sylphs. Tonight features The West Indian showing with the same program.
The Maric Market lists corn at 42 to 48s per quarter and barley from 24 to 275. 6d per ditto. Rye 24 to 255. Oats 14 to 193. Finest flour 493 per sack second fort 373 ditto third fort 44s ditto. Pale malt 35 to 375 quarts Br. Malt 3% to 3.58 per ditto. Beans 25 to 345. Tares 24 to 378 per ditto. Rape-seed–
The snippet lists various stock prices and bonds such as Bank Stocks and India bonds with centuries old rates. It mentions South Sea stock, Bank An and Continent bonds with percents like 3 per cent and 5 per cent. The text includes references to India bonds, Navy bills, and bank long annuities.
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