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Newspaper
General Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jul 29, 1773
Page
4
Fragmented OCR style notes list parish records with ages and roles. Mentions Evseine Post, Peace Scruay, Septembre 973, Reig and, Parsons list, ages twenty one, cave within parish, and tythingmen.
A polemical reply defends a celebrated ode against charges of lack of harmony and pedantry. Magdalensis rebuts criticisms about imagery, metaphor, alliteration, and influences from Sternhold and Addison, asserting the ode’s spirited style and merit and urging fairness in evaluation.
A dated dispatch reports Russian forces crossing the Danube and actions near Silistria. It notes Turkish losses of about 15 000 killed and 5 000 prisoners, with 190 cannon and tents abandoned. Additional summaries mention Potemkin and Weisman actions and Romanov dispatches.
The morning notes report a Danish testamentary position if the king dies before the hereditary prince reaches governing age. A Danish arrival from the Cape details pirates mutiny aboard a captured vessel, murder of its captain and crew, and subsequent executions. Other items include colonial governorship changes, a French ship seized near Senegal, and local court actions.
By order of the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury a notice announces that starting Monday August 2 at the Bank of England Bullion Office any quantity of diminished gold guineas half guineas and quaster-guineas will be taken in at a rate of 17 pounds 7 shillings and 10 pence per ounce. Submissions continue every Monday Wednesday and Saturday except holidays with parcels of at least fifty guineas.
A morning robbery in Lambeth recalls a footpad who seized sixteen shillings and a watch from a gentleman near Ladier's Wells, dressed in a faldier's uniform. Reports of marriages, deaths, and business notices fill the page, including a Bridewell chapel wedding and a long list of local happenings. The Warick trial convicts James Duckworth of treason and counterfeiting, while Edinburgh Court of Session rules on perpetual versus limited authorial property in Stackhouse's History of the Bible.
Fragmented stock prices and time signals from London Bridge markets list bank stocks India bonds and various securities with terse notes. The snippet mentions prices for Bank Stock 142 and 3 percent bonds alongside India and South Sea securities and mentions afternoon sessions and times scattered through the record.
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