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Newspaper
General Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Oct 17, 1776
Page
4
Theatrical intelligence notes a crowded Drury Lane audience for The Hypocrite and The Christmas Tale. Mrs Abington debuts this season as Charlotte and delivers an exquisite performance marked by grace, fashion, and wit that charms even tender emotions.
The passage argues that assemblies of citizens alone are not enough for safety, needing a directing head or institutions like ephori, tribunes, or a prince to balance power. It discusses how popular rule can challenge elites, the dangers of delays and faction, and how mixed governments derive equity from balancing various interests while laws guide legitimate rule.
The text argues that no sovereign or hereditary ruler can govern justly without the people’s input, urging representation or other participation in shaping laws. It notes nations vary in law execution based on public involvement and views law as a treaty shaped by parties’ opinions, objections, and amendments. It describes how laws multiply as subjects are debated while freedoms persist.
London reports a letter from an officer of the 6th regiment dated Long Island Sept 7 warning of putrid fever in New York and looming civil war from troop discontent while Indians and Africans might act against colonists. A Pensacola dispatch notes Georgia and South Carolina settlers harassed by regulators, with Anderson brewing a free Negro colony on the Mississippi banks and slave insurrection fears. Later items mention court moves, theatre recruitment in Edinburgh, market prices, a cabbage scam, Gatehouse plans, a robbing spree, and a fatal accident at Bishopsgate with obituaries and local happenings.
The fragment lists various stock prices and percentages such as Bank Ann, India Bonds, Navy, and Lottery Tracts with figures like 82 per cent, 195 per cent, 39 per cent, and 25 per cent. The text appears to be an OCR-damaged stock ticker or financial column with mixed entities and incomplete details.
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