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Newspaper
General Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Mar 30, 1771
Page
3
Reports from London and various ports describe troop reinforcements for the Turkish army and negotiations with Abdul Rezac Effendi and Achmet Effendi. Colonial and home ports note ships being prepared for West Indies service under Admiral Rodney, arrivals at Spithead, and several vessels sailing to Gibraltar and the Americas amid ongoing global tensions.
London dispatches report the House adjourning beyond Mr Wilkes attendance and the Lord Chancellor being summoned. Rumors claim Cromwell’s ghost, in armour, unsettles the Majority as mock processions and a rumoured campaign against imaginary criminals circulate the City. Nearby notices announce promotions and marriages, with further obituaries at Winchester for the Chancellor of the Church of Salisbury.
A fragment mentions Bendsiy of Winchester as Reader of Amickleham and Vicar of Alteir Halap, with unsure attribution. The garbled OCR hints at medieval church titles and local clerical figures without clear dates or places.
Cambridge announces subscriptions for a new edition of the Antiquities of Herculaneum by Martyn and Lettice. The two initial volumes will print in large quarto, priced at three guineas with one payment on subscribing. Subscriptions are collected in Cambridge London Oxford Norwich York Bath Exeter Edinburgh Glasgow Dublin with various booksellers named.
Fragmentary OCR listing prints and poems from a London shop, noting titles such as The Authentic Met and a dramatic poem by a writer named Lavy. Mentions streets like Ludgate Street and Liggares Street, with scattered author and title fragments and an advertisement feel.
A publisher catalogue note extols The Christian Companion of 1771 as a practical guide for all Christians. The work, bound with a frontispiece by Taylor, includes The Principles of Religion and The Concerns of Human Life in four parts and annexed terms of salvation. William Jones endorses it for home use and spread among Christian households. Printed for Robinson and Roberts and M Folingsby at Temple Bar.
The speaker greets the resolution to form a committee of enquiry, rails at ministers for neglecting riots at St George’s Fields Brentford and elsewhere, accuses them of private gain, laments police sacrifice, and calls for a formal enquiry while praising England yet mourning its current state. The speech contrasts past bravado with present fear and urges establishment of an enquiry committee.
A speaker urges tracing the sources of present disturbance and opposing the inquisition like committee. He warns ministers will terrorize rather than cure abuses, insists liberty requires popular control, and calls for self reform before judging ministers and magistrates. He cites Cade and Wat Tyler as warnings and supports a reformation at home.
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