History of the Brazilian slave revolt and Chilean uprising in 1772
A 1772 account describes a Brazilian slave insurrection near Maracón where 3000 slaves seized arms and attacked Portuguese-held forts. It recounts the ensuing battles, 800 Portuguese counterattack, and a rout aided by disciplined fire. It links slave revolts to broader indigenous resistance across Chile and the failed Spanish Castro settlement, noting continued uprisings and fears of wider colonial upheaval and slave solidarity.
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Donsizy
Brasils
St.oseph
Maracnon
Chili
Spain
Chiloe
Cape Horn
Magellan
Baldivia
Cattro
Grison
Azengen
Barat
Falkland’s Island
Castro
Peru
Chifoe
Chilese
Chile
Eber
Saint Jago
Lima
To the Editor of the General Evening Post
A reader’s fragmentary note discusses the high cost of gold and the public interest in reform, noting the government’s push for change and referencing Locke as a figure of debate. The letter centers on economics and policy discourse of the period.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
General Evening Post
Locke
Fellion
Clipping and Coinage Power Debate in Old Mint Theory
The fragment discusses how altering clipping practices would shift money from metal weight to minted value. It argues that stopping clipping would reveal milled money, not deprive trade, and gradually restore weighty money to the Mint for recoining, changing the economy without forcible action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brown
Universal
Protesting Gold Act Critique by Nassau Correspondent
A Nassau correspondence lambasts the General Gold Act, arguing it harms honest miners while empowering coin clippers and smugglers. The writer warns of melting, standard distortions, and price erosion, urging lower new guineas and stricter controls on clipped coins.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Egolly
Sandard
Gillany
Holland
Nassau
Inverted adage tale of a freeloader’s extended meals
A narrator details a rogue’s month of free meals at coffee houses chop houses and taverns. He spends five guineas in breakfasts cheeses and porter while bosses weigh and bill him. The opportunist travels seven hundred miles on turnpikes hoping hosts defer payment until his return.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Friffic
Lord Noth
Terry
Royal procession at Richmond gardens delight spectators
A visitor describes the King and Queen in a light carriage by the river at Richmond gardens. A gilt barge of the Goldsmiths Company, then another of the Grocers Company, saluted the royal party with cheers and music. Infants, princes and princesses joined, as the Queen held the infant and the royal couple conversed with Lord and Lady Buckinghamshire. The scene impressed even wary patriots with happiness and approval.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond-gardens
Goldsmiths Company
Grocers Company
Lord
Buckinghamshire
Terras
Bibliographic catalogue of medical and travel books
A London bookseller advertises a multi-item catalog including R James’s Medicinal Dictionary, An Introduction to the Study of History by R Johnson, Voltaire translated works, Telemachus abridged, Ten Dialogues on Human Life, The London Companion with fares, Paterson road guides and a Travelling Dictionary. Prices range from 2s to seven guineas, with notes on bindings and editions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. Weston
F. Carnan
St. Paul's Church
Yard
R. James
R. Johnson
Father Queine
M. de Voltaire
Telemacus
Ulysses
Cahibray
Prince of Wales
Royal
Zara
London Companion
Hackney
London
Westminster
Southwark
Great Britain
England
Wales
Scotland
Daniel Paterson
Pridges
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W. Enfield
J. Johnson
St. Paul’s Churchyard
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