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Newspaper
General Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Oct 02, 1773
Page
4
A periodical review on Garrick's performance in a production with Cath remarks a strong, sometimes overplayed portrayal. While acknowledging skill and influence on younger actors, the writer notes occasional excess and theatrical artifice, cautioning against overstatements of universal rectitude.
This Day was published priced 21 bound for school and office use. It combines a compendious practical English grammar with a Sperzine Dictionary and Expositor of the English Language, including a new dictionary of idiomatic phrases and Homeric terms, by A Fisher.
A sale listing for a six-volume collection titled A New and Accurate System of Natural History by T. Caman and F. Newbery senior. Includes topics on Amphibians, Birds, Fishes, sea creatures, plants, fossils, and gardening, with copper-plate illustrations. Also advertised are volumes on astronomy, northern antiquities, Danes, and Plutarch LIVES in vellum bindings.
An Oxford notice discusses a candidate for the new Professorship of Astronomy to be founded by the Ratcliffe Trustees. It names Dr Hunt, Dr Brown, Dr Randolph, Dr Hayes, Dr Bentham, Dr Vivian, Dr Nowell, Vansittart, and Mr Chambers as possible successors and suggests the candidate may also seek other posts such as Public Orator and professorships in Arabic Hebrew Law Modern History Languages Physic and Divinity. The Ode cited is claimed to prove his merit and royal favor.
Extracts report that Vienna notes pressure on Europe amid Russian and French diplomacy, with Constantinople raising 40000 recruits and fears of a major war. ships and trade details from Gloucester and Ludlow. Claims of tobacco, cheese, and butter price fluctuations at Barton fair and Ludlow market. Reports of unrest in the Caribbean and Britain including tax complaints, vagrancy laws, and a Windsor shooting case. Also covers Maidenhead races results, fires in Thames Street, and local obituaries and marriages.
A man fell into a pond at the porta garden and drowned. Mrs. Colebran tried to locate her husband after his disappearance and found him upright in the water with head just under the surface. The coroner's jury returned an accidental death verdict. Separately, notices mention a marriage near Talley and local appointments and deaths in Brecon and Edinburgh.
London notices show high water at 5:18 AM and 1:40 PM with later tides as listed. Theatres present Drury Lane shows The Grecian Daughter and The Mayor of Garratt this evening. Covent Garden features King Richard the Third yesterday and The Merchant of Venice tonight with Love a la Made.
The report lists prices for CORNELL MA Wheat Barley Rye and Oats with figures and forts. Flour and other grain prices are shown with fort values. Stock market items include Bank Stock South Sea bonds and various annuities, with dates and percentages noted. Additional entries cover malt beans tare rape-seed and old/new South Sea annuities, and India bonds with navy bills and bank long annuities.
A London letter from Southwark dated May 21, 1973 describes severe stomach pain and headache alleviated by Merchant's Drops. Edward Marquure reports restored health and urges publication to benefit mankind, with claims of cures for leprosy and other ailments.
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