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Newspaper
General Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jul 27, 1771
Page
3
The narrator recounts a life of illness poverty and shifting fortunes. After failing to gain aid through honesty he becomes a public storyteller predicting happiness to others using gleaned gossip and sly tricks to beg and earn money. A scene shows Virtue and a younger sister of Virtue influencing Harley as a shill tries to steal coins.
A patient named James Cole of Caldicot near Cambridge suffered a decade long venereal disease with inveterate scurvy and ulcers. After failing with salivation and other treatments, he reportedly regained ability to rise and walk within five weeks and was fully cured in twelve months. The notice claims Doctor Burrows’s vegetable syrup provides relief and lists sale locations in Cambridge and surrounding towns.
From Drogheda comes word that on Sunday fennight a man in jealousy drove his wife to a precipice near the town and cut her throat throwing her to the bottom where she died instantly. The accused is in gaol.
An extended shipping list shows arrivals at Dover Cork Dublin Pool Liverpool and Portsmouth with vessels such as Stecefs Fenterton Unity Naftell and James M’Cuigh Vannah May Catharine Lisle Amy Burren and Aurora Hafey. A cabinet council at Lord Rochford’s office notes royal amusements paused for knights at Windsor and praise for Windsor camp conduct. Also grants pass sealing Henry Bathurst and Apsley Barhurst to succeed as Clerk of the Crown in Chancery with John Bathurst obtaining life tenure as drawing writing and ingrossing agent.
Mrs Maria Guy aged 20 and Drummond Ross EQ Collector of the Customs at Kirkwall in Orkney appear in a Strand notice concerning an ofrange fortune in the funds. The fragment suggests a historic public notice involving these named individuals and fiscal matters.
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