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Newspaper
General Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Mar 17, 1774
Page
4
A March 14 plea from a supporter of Mr Jebb's plan for Annual Examinations, urging public backing and reflecting on opposition and prejudice. The writer vows continued effort, hopes for academical reform, and praises the university's mother, dma Mater, hoping her glory endures for future generations.
Reports tout a strict crackdown on excesses in the city and suburbs of Constantinople with orders to punish and exile offenders. The sabre girding ceremony was held with pomp, while in Warsaw and Moscow rumors speak of a new Turkic emperor and schemes of mutiny thwarted by authorities. A Siberian plot alleged by a Moscow letter is described as foiled, and a map of “Northern Archipelago” discoveries by Russians is published in Petersburgh.
The House of Commons adjourned after officers in Boston duties were to be removed and trade restricted until satisfaction to the Privy Council and the India Company. Debates on related bills, inclosures, and municipal matters continued with petitions, surveys, and committee examinations.
Reports from London a re election of Lord Bexachamp for Orford without opposition while Admiralty sent an express to Plymouth for a dead frigate to be ready for immediate sailing. Notices from Paris Warsaw and Chatham detail debts, taxation plans, forgeries case, shipbuilding orders, dockyard repairs, and various naval movements.
Great astonishment of a number of TisBiatars, lis tell dead from his horse in the midst of them, and died without a groan. THEATRICAL ENTERTAINMENTS, Dreruv-Lane. This evening, The Heroine of the Cave, never performed before, with The Padlock, Covent-Garven. This evening, Artaxerxes, with The Englishman in Paris.
Report lists prices for Bank Stock India shares South Sea and Old and New Annuities with percentages and bonds. Contains figures such as 854 842a% 3 per cent Bank A 6248 3 per cent Consol 1726 and India Ann. 34 percent 1758 amid unsettled naval bonds and bills.
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