Theatre opening at Southampton with new prologue
A correspondent corrects an error about the Southampton theatre opening. The piece notes the theatre was opened by London theatre servants under Mr Younger with Love in a Village and praises the new scenes costumes and performance. It invites weekly Monday Wednesday and Friday shows through September. The letter then shifts to a long political reflection on Wilkes and Shelburne era faction battles in London civic life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas Sherratt
Younger
Southampton
St Our
Theatres Royal
London
Willkes
Shelburne
Wilkes
Walkes
Crown of
England
Pecuniam & Arma
Mefsrs
Bull
Alderman Wilkes
Piccadilly
Mesiras Wilkes
Wilkes Sheri
George and Vulture
Cornhill
Oliver
Kirkmart
Guildhall
Lonedon
Horne
St. James’s
Portman Square
Dofter’s Commons
West Smithfield
Portsmouth
Messrs
Mattocks
Simpson
Richards
Covent Garden Theatre
Swanfia
Funi
Samuel Davies
Margaret Davies
Woodcock
Hereford Journal
Epigram on a Dublin inoculation letter by Amnola
A letter from Dublin by Mr. Joseph Arnold contains words of inoculation expressed as an epigram. The dialogue notes that each word has its own signified sense, yet Amnola’s phrasing renders meanings muddled. The writer concludes that correspondence with him is futile and suggests returning the letters to W. Vachell.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph Arnold
Dublin
Amnola
W. Vachell
To the Printer of the General Evening Post
A letter urges fair debate by grounding argument in facts and governing principles. It warns against prejudice and misrepresentation while scrutinizing candidates for public offices, noting ministerial efforts to block a feared opponent and calling for vigilance against elite manipulation in a divided polity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
General Evening Post
Question on Aldermanic Qualities and Sheriff Eligibility
The letter recounts Mr John Wilkees visiting Bromley with Mr Reynolds to see Sir George Young's house at Foot's Crag in Surrey. Sir George and another gentleman politely show the house and congratulate on being chosen an Alderman, with Wilkees joking about wearing horns and lacking qualifications for a sheriff.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
King’s Bench
Timber supply committee report to improve navy timber
This Day were published by order of the House of Commons a report from the committee appointed on the 71th of March 1771 on how His Majesty's Navy may be better supplied with timber. Price 5s. Printed for multiple publishers in Fleet Street and Holborn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
House of Commons
T. Evans
Paternofter-row
All Booksellers
Great Britain and Ireland
Royal News and Elections Amid West Florida Tensions
Reports from St James's describe a cabinet council on Gibraltar advised threats to West Florida, with two major officials expected to resign. Berths, elections, and public notices fill the day as Wilkes and Bull seek Sheriff, while duels, lawsuits, and theatre moves unfold among London society.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Earl of Suffolk
St. James’s
Gibraltar
West Florida
West-Indies
Barcelona
Paris
Genoa
Ilinglafg
Rufsia
Holland
Nevis
Atlantic
Florida
Admiral Stott
Atland
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Theatrical Country Intelligence
John Wilkees
Turro Enition
William Cadogan
College of Physicians
J. Dodsley
Pall Mall
Humphrey C. L. K . R
Roderic Random
W. Johnston
Ludgate-street
B. Colling
Salisbury
J. Whitton
Boyle’s Head
C. Bathurst
Fleet-street
L. Davis
Gray’s Inn Gate
Holborn
B. White
Horaces’s Head
Fleetstreet
W. Bowyer
J. Nichols
Cicero's Head
Red-Lion-Passage
Re. Samuel Newton
Clinton
Newmarket
Everal
Jennison Shafto
Pond
Bridge’s Street
Ruffel Court
Covent Garden
Postscript
India
Fhat South-Sea
Ditto India
Ditto
Consol
Foat P. Navy
Long-Acre
Bowdas
Burchell
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