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Newspaper
General Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Mar 10, 1774
Page
4
A poem extols Simplicity over wealth praising virtue peace and rural pleasures. It contrasts rich pride with humble living noting clear springs simple food cheerful mornings and restful nights. The speaker invites readers to embrace simple cultivation and mindful living as the true source of joy.
A reflective poem extols virtue over vanities of beauty and wealth. The speaker counsels living with prudence and health, seeking a peace of mind and moral riches that outlast age. Fame and flirtation fade. virtue sustains joy and accepts death with quiet faith.
An 18th century style notice lists publications on divinity and poetry. It promotes a volume and parts titled The Existence Attributes and Providence of God with an elegy and other pieces. Prices 7s 6d for the complete work, or separate parts. Several booksellers and locations are named as places to buy.
Postscript to the editor critiques Rev Romaine and Rev Jones on Christ’s nature. The writer denounces claims that Christ’s manhood equals the Godhead and calls orthodoxy blasphemous, self-identifying as an orthodox heretic. Letter signed H. P. 1774.
The House of Commons met at 2 pm with limited private business. Clerks read 109 letters from America for three hours. Debates in the Upper Assembly covered electoral trials and land grants in North America, while other motions praised Mr. Haughton and Woodward for public service. Major notices include Irish affairs and a citywide rebuke over tea ship turmoil.
Mrs Ursula Dacey a widow gentlewoman died in her sixty second year from the bite of a lap dog occurring about eight months ago. The obituary notes her late husband and social standing.
East India House March 11 1974 notice of a General Court at Leadenhall Street to be held Wednesday the 16th at eleven o'clock in the forenoon. The draft of instructions on commissions to Warren Hastings and Lieutenant General Clavering to be debated and the repeal of section 34 of bye-law 214 and alteration of bye-law 17.
Eas-India House March 11 1774 announces that a General Court of the United Company of Merchants of England will be held at Leadenhall Street on the fifth instant from eleven in the forenoon to six in the evening to ballot on approving the draught commissions for Warren Hastings and Lieutenant General John Clavering and to recommend to the Court of Directors to prepare and seal the commissions.
The Court of Directors of the East India Company announces a plan for electing six directors per year over four terms by ballot on April 13. Provisions require each proprietary list to contain 24 names, divided into four classes of six, with top vote getters per class chosen for their term. If ties occur within a class, the General Court decides by tot.
Deruy Lane presents King Lear with The Innth Widow at Covent Garden this evening The Winter's Tale follows with The Citizen as the program unfolds in a lively London theatre listing
The item lists several stock prices and annuity figures, noting a bank stock for India and South Sea ditto, plus Old Ann ditto New 84ah 3 per cent, Bank Annuities Reduced, 3 per cent Confol. 8élag 3 per cent at 5726.
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