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Newspaper
General Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Mar 14, 1771
Page
4
A fragmented poem laments a harsh winter and absent Sylvia. Celadon’s yearning returns with her presence, birds resume song, and spring promises relief. The piece shifts to a boxing match notice between Hon Thomas Kine and Col Owsnow with daily bouts at the Cockpit Royal beginning Monday.
A March 8 1771 letter to the Printer of the General Evening Post discusses finding nitre in snow. The writer describes dissolving snow in water, evaporating to test volatile salts, and notes only faint tastes remaining, suggesting various salts may vaporize with steam and calls for further study by Dr Fordyce Mr Young and the Georgical kflugs author. The author signs IR.
A bankruptcy sale is announced for William Coxes of Romsey with a commission of bankruptcy. His estate for life in two moieties, lands near Southampton, and a Romsey bell-ran estate, plus two meadows, two cottages and other leases are to be sold by public auction at the White Host in Winchester on the sixth of April between one and two in the afternoon. Terms note mortgaged inheritance and rents.
Notice warns of counterfeit bottles and confirms genuine tinctures prepared by Thomas Greenough apothecary at Ludgate Street and by Francis Newbury Junior near St. Paul’s, London. Sold for 1s each, with Paris sale by J. Le Brun. Emphasizes bottle redesign to deter imitations and claims to cure scurvy in gums and toothache.
Widow Martha Wray and Mary Sopp announce continued sale of Turlington’s Original Balsam of Life at the King’s Arms Birchin Lane near the Royal Exchange. They warn against impostors claiming rights to the receipt and insist only their true, genuine balsam is sold in bottles with directions signed by Wray and Sopp.
From Kemper Lipienski's force the commander was killed with sixty fellow soldiers, fifty captured, and ten horses seized. Zaremba retreated from Kru terichin to Pézkow with 800 of 1400 men. Letters from Lithuania mention a king’s faction near completion. Vienna notes a 60,000 man camp to form near Pres in April with a review planned. Maritime reports describe Russian vessels seen off Malta and Cape One with several warships and transports proceeding east. Perfaile reports Marquis of Noailes as ambassador to the States General.
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