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Newspaper
General Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Mar 18, 1775
Page
4
Postscript to the Editor condemns malice and gossip that spread false or trivial stories about others. It condemns detraction as a low moral act and defends modesty, privacy, and charitable responses to insults. The section follows with parliamentary notes and diverse public notices from February and March.
News from Lisbon reports the Court of Portugal has abolished pensions and declared the right of presentation to nearly all kingdom benefices to rest with the Crown. In Algiers the ruler moves to hereditary rule, suppressing the Divan and installing four favorites. A 24 pounder battery at the Mole endangers ships approaching the city. A foreign foundry for cannon is said to be succeeding. Pest reports heavy frost damage from the Danube flood, with hundreds of houses leveled. Old Buda and Neuflitz lie ruined, and Raezkeveer island reports only one survivor from eighteen wagons.
The Princess Caroline Augusta Maria will be carried out of town tomorrow at ten to be interred in the Royal Chapel at Windsor in a vault prepared by the Duke of Gloucester for himself and his family. This evening the Duke will lie in state at Gloucester House. Yesterday the Lords met at half past two.
High water readings at London Pridge show increases around 1om in the morning 46 m after noon and 3om in the afternoon with further 6 in the morning and 610 in the evening noted for Thursday.
Market notes show prices for corn and related grains in London on Monday. Wheat quoted at 4 205¢ per quarter, barley 22 to 27 9d, rye 26 to 28, oats 7 to 14 ½, flour prices per sack, malt values around 280.368, quar. Feeds and peas quoted with small varied amounts.
Fragmentary OCR listing various bank stocks and interest rates with references to India, the South Seas, and fiscal terms. Mentions percentages, annuities, and day timings such as One o' Clock, along with scattered figures like 4 per cent and 172, all in terse financial shorthand.
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