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Newspaper
General Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Mar 27, 1773
Page
4
A brief card notes a staged epilogue intended for Dr. Goldsmith's new comedy, highlighting the character Tony Tumpain. The fragment preserves the theatre context and the named persona while signaling a rehearsal or reading session.
To the Editor of the General Evening Post, the tale centers on ars Hel and his failed attempts to block a Remonstrance. After urging the Lord Chamberlain to certify official action, courtiers mock the subterfuge as a weak shield. Alderman Hy questions why the Remonstrance wasn’t opposed in Commons Hall, noting it echoes prior remonstrances He and Mr S presented.
A hot discussion set forth pro and con the Clergy claim to tythe in kind, citing Mosaic law versus Christ’s commandments. Arguments note the danger to farmers and social discord, while urging Parliament to consider a principled, humane provision for clergy within Christian doctrine.
From Paris and Tours arrives word that peace talks may extend with no new campaigns this year. Meanwhile reports describe ferocious wolves terrorizing Tours and surrounding areas, killing and maiming dozens, with cattle losses looming as efforts to hunt them fail. A peasant’s misdeed in burying a hog led to the outbreak’s spread.
A scrambled report details a surge in brick demand and wage costs, a pub gambling dispute, a Holland trader fire with one passenger dead, a naked man found murdered in the Strand, a highway robbery near Wandworth, a dead well-dressed man on Blackheath with French bills and tea consignments, and various obituaries and notices including marriages and business openings.
The Grecian Daughter and The Rival Queens feature in Covent Garden and Denny Lane bills with additional shows like The Jealous Wife, Like Matter Like Man, and Harlequin Sorcerer. High water timings noted at London Bridge with stock prices for Bank Stock South Sea and Consols, including 3 percent Per Cent and other quotes.
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