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Newspaper
General Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jan 11, 1774
Page
2
The General Evening Post warns MPs that low national trade raises landed interests’ risk and calls for curbing corn bounty and rationing exports. It argues wheat prices at 49s and barley at 20s are high and export restrictions on spirits and grain imports may be needed to steady prices.
The writer argues for a representative of exceptional character to salvage a corrupt state. He cites Sidney and warns that corruption now permeates parliament, court, army, and commerce. The chosen man must sacrifice self for justice, understand collective welfare, and resist elitist distinctions. He must value public duty above ambition and be capable of guiding reform.
A brief, fragmentary line extols wisdom virtue knowledge temperance charity and a supreme love of God and country, recalling a archaic aspirational dedication. The text preserves moral virtues and patriotic sentiment in a ceremonial tone.
An editor prints a long letter from a correspondent, tracing a fanciful chain of events tied to the number 45. It recounts births, marriages, travels, and battles, including a Scots voyage and a soldier’s discharge after Culloden. The piece ends with a watch-paper poem urging swift use of time and memento mori.
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