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Newspaper
General Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Mar 16, 1771
Page
4
A fragmentary eighteenth century poem lamenting Melissa and her lost loved one. The speaker calls for compassion as Melissa mourns Damon, recalling verses of a beloved songster, kinsfolk garlands, and tender memories, with benedictions on beauty and virtue.
Indeo writers advertise a wide array of lamps and fittings for interior lighting at Indioors Sora Street near Clifford's Inn Fleet Street. The listing includes chamber lamps leather lamps pump lamps pewter lamps and many variants. Also offered are fine rectified sperm oil and true genuine fine white sperm oil with prices per gallon and per quart.
Within one mile of Chigthell in Eis Tow want of two Arabian horses described as a mare and a stallion. The mare is grey, the stallion is brown. Both were bred by the King of Sinnar in the Moses mountains in Yanam, Arabia Felix.
Postscript from Parts notes public calm during Bairam as news of a Russian fleet spreads. It cites a possible reorganization of justice and a new Parliament or court of Peers, with six councils limiting the current Parliament and plan to recall exiled members for reduced roles and possible restitution of fines.
Ste verbose note reports ships passing in high spirits with militia aboard and oak cargo. Several vessels arrive with ships named Middlesex Surrey Kenith Militia and transports. cutter crews lower topsails on entrance. Proclamation Kinc stranded on Liberty Shore plundered by natives.
The newspaper reports delays in printing due to mass notices and describes a Parliament session extending to May 18. It notes a bill for market regulation and cheaper provisions, a visit by the Princess Dowager of Wales, and military movements including ships to the Leeward Islands and ships fitted at Plymouth to sail for the Tagus to seek restitution of a Portuguese cargo.
A fragment from a periodical discusses disobedience to mandates, naval manpower declines, and calls for greater government focus on national security rather than prosecuting printers. It notes plans for a Bill of Rights supporters meeting, praises Mr. Wilkes for opposing general warrants, and reports on duels, robberies, and a hanging. It also mentions Denmark, Sweden, and France amid rising tensions, plus a Portsmouth incident and an exodus of sailors to the continent.
The passage rails at calumny and exposes offenders by calling out thieves and liars who libel others to shield themselves. It likens their acts to secret schemes and dark councils, noting how their reputations suffer when brought into the light amid a London underworld echoing Tyburn.
A dated long list of towns in England with notes on MP representation, cattle, horses and goods, and noble titles. It records places like Clitheroe Keynsham Wye St Albans Axbridge Grainpound and Huntingdon with details on parliamentary seats and peerage, plus a stock prices table at day’s end.
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