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Newspaper
General Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Mar 15, 1774
Page
2
Debated arguments defend moving the Custom-house from Boston, urging legal, practical measures and warning against dangerous independence moves. Opponents ridicule the plan as ruinous, warn of costs and selective justice, while supporters demand a resolute, workable measure with fewer objections than alternatives.
List of new works including LL-in -the Wrofg, a farce performed at Sr. S-n's Chapel, On, the Beauty of Trath-by Mr. H-ne, The Progress of Piety-by the fame, The Member of Parliament a one act farce by Thomas Bates R-s, Esq, The Pleasures of an Election by Sir Watkin L-s, Thea, Double Disappointment by the fame.
A fragment from a serialized piece notes its conclusion and recalls a scene with a knock at the door. Names like Behevolence, Pleasure, Content, Love, Conscious, Merit, and Public Spirit are invoked as acquaintances arrive, echoing a moral tale tone.
A narrator recalls a grand house where vanity luxury and indolence wear false benevolence. Servants steal charity funds, Carpo grows tyrannical with wealth, and a cough of gout reveals greed. Disease arrives, wealth vanishes, and the family slides from prodigal to miser as attendants dwindle. The old servant warns the lasting ruin of vice.
A narrator recalls the Sultan tale from the Spectator about spending fourteen years in the mind while only dipping a head into a pail of water, illustrating the speed of thought during a night filled with varied events.
An old anecdote tells how Dr. Brown, long courting a lady, customarily toasted her health before others. On a night when he forgot to toast, a gentleman urged him to drink the lady. The Doctor replied that he had toasted her for years and could not toast her again, making a pun on bozwa.
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