SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER AT COVENT GARDEN REVIEW
An account of a new comedy by Dr. Goldsmith presented at Covent Garden. The piece centers on Mr. and Mrs. Hardcastle their daughter Miss Hardcastle and ward Miss Nevill with Marlow Hastings and Lumpkin. Mistaken identity inn plots and a final marriage resolve the farce, with Hardcastle and his family navigating social schemes and comic misunderstandings. The cast includes Hardcastle Marlow Hastings Miss Nevill and Sir Charles Marlow, with a village inn as a central backdrop. The plot follows love blushes pretended inns mistaken hosts and a climactic revelation that unites Marlow with Miss Hardcastle while Hastings pursues Miss Nevill.
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General Evening Post
Dr. Goldmith
Coventgarden Theatre
Hardcastle
Marlow
Sir Charles
Hardcastle’s
Leat
Hardcattle
Lumpkin
Bie
Valtle
Hastings
Miss Nevill
Mife Nevill
Miss Hardcattle
Hardcatle
Miss Hardcastle
Squire
Bert Bouncer
Miss Nev
Br&ss O
Mr. Hardcastle
Young Meadows
Mills Hardcastle
Mr. Marlow
Diana
Harm
Letter to the Clergy of England on Tithes and Elections
A correspondent writes to English clergy, urging defense of tithes in kind and listing enemies of the Church. He argues clergy should claim other tythable goods, cites February 26, 1773, and suggests political action at the approaching election to protect the Church and nation.
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Courci of
England
Church of England
T.S
House and theatre news and early parliamentary actions
The House of Commons met to report on East India Company affairs and passed the Indemnity West India and naturalization bills with Royal assent this day. Public notices include theatre applause for the Duke of Gloucester, remarks on the Earl of Stormont, Lord Bellamont’s health, a jeweller’s claim, and corrections on Royal Society address wording. Also mentioned are plans for an Indian law department, Cambridge fellows dispute, and shipping news from Newry and Barbadoes with apple trees from Normandy.
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House of Commons
East-India Company
Duke of Gloucester
Covent-garden Theatre
Duke of Cumberland
Earl of Stormont
Viscount Stormont
Lord Bellamont
Cox
Royal Society
India
Cambridge
Hopewell
Long
New-York
Newry
Corke
London
Barbadoes
Lord Mansfield
Lord Dartmouth
Lord North
Havre de Grace
Normandy
Richard Symons
Hereford
Lowington
Essex
Henry More
Great Britain
Robbery attempt and mysterious death reported in town
A gang attempted to rob Blaen dydd y fryn estate trunk worth over a thousand pounds. The theft failed when a maid cried out waking the house. one robber left hat and shoes and was later captured. A separate case recalls a woman visiting her daughter in service dying after being asked to share a bed. Both are buried together.
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Price
Blaen-ddy-fryn
Boone
Cocks Main Between Essex and London Opens Monday at Westminster
The great main between the gentlemen of Essex and London begins at 4:30 pm on Monday the 22nd instant and runs all week at the Cock Pit Royal Westminster. Bets are ten guineas per battle, nil two hundred guineas the odd battle, fought by daylight. Champs Essex, Stanton, feeds for London.
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Essex
London
Cockpit Royal
Westminster
Champs
Stanton
Garildina Royal India Composition for facial hair removal
An 18th century advertises Garildina Royal India Composition as a hair removal cure, sold by S Gifford at Lincoln's Inn Fields and J Snoxell at Cheapside, price one guinea per ounce with directions. Merchants or ship captains may order any quantity, letters answered postpaid.
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Garildina
England
Theatrical entertainments at Drury Lane and Coventry Garden
Yesterday at Drury Lane The West Indian with Pigmy Revels and Alonzo this evening. Coventry Garden offers A New Comedy She Stoops to Conquer with Thomas and Sally, and tonight the same comedy with Daphne and Amintor.
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Drury-Lanz
Alonzo
Coventry Garden
Thomas
Sally
Daphne
Amintor
High Water Timings and Market Prices Report
High water at London Bridge is listed for tomorrow at 2 hours after sunrise and 40 minutes after sunset with a similar schedule on Thursday at 10 in the morning and 40 minutes after 7 at night. Corn prices yesterday are given from the Mark Lane market.
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London Bridge
Mark - Lana
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Postscript
Sir Charles Marlow
Mr. Shuter
Lewes
Dubellamy
Quick
Gardener
Saunders, Davies
Thompson
Green
Kniveton
Bulkley
aClock
Ann
South-Sea
Ditto
Navy
Bank
Long Ann
Lady Barker
Ipswich
Suffolk
Samuel Kilderbee
Bath
Bagatelle
N.B
Arthur Murphy
Theatres Royal
Covent-garden
T. Lowndes
Fleet-street
Lord Birgn
Baldwin
J. Noble
Holborn
St. Martin's Court
R. Henry
Hatton-garden
W. Nicoll
St. Paul's Churchyard
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