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Newspaper
General Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Mar 02, 1775
Page
4
A verse lampoons the Rostrum and Popish sermons as a mountain mouse of fashion toppled by modern taste. The poet mocks clerical pomp and warns parishioners to beware liberal changes that dethrone longstanding ritual. The piece blends satire with local church motif and moral warning.
This Day was published price 13. Sermon preached before the University at Cambridge on Saturday the sth of November. By John Hey B D Fellow of Sidney Sussex College and preacher at His Majesty's Chapel at Westminster. Printed by J Archdeacon and sold by multiple Cambridge and London booksellers. Also offered An Affize Sermon on the Nature of Obsolete Ordinances price 6d.
A letter from Corunna notes a detachment of two hundred Royal artillery sent to Malaga, possibly headed for Africa. Leghorn reports a pirate vessel sunk by a French frigate with all crew lost. Prefourg notes imperial ports delayed by floods. Obernier Frattendorf and Weinern towns are submerged with three houses left standing at Frattendorf. Waters rose a foot and a half yesterday and two more feet today, causing widespread distress.
In the Lords, counsel argued the 1760s case of James Nicoll and Thomas Davie against Harry Verelft formerly Governor of Bengal and the Council. The appeal concerns imprisonments and damages tied to their resignations as East India Company officers and subsequent actions in India, with injunctions and commission petitions shaping the stay of proceedings. The session adjourned after lengthy discussion of orders and related Commons business.
Friday in the House a hundred Members gathered and the chamber moved to ballot for a Select Committee to determine on the petition. The scene focused on assembling a quorum and initiating the inquiry.
A reader and correspondent requests prompt insertion of a courteous reply in the General Evening Post. The letter criticizes and applauds an orator for his remarks about King Charles the First, noting elegance and timely timing in the piece.
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