A Briton Argues Against Ingratitude To Britain
A British letter criticizes colonial ingratitude and declares loyalty to Britain amid tensions with colonies seeking independence. The writer recalls Wolfe and Braddock, laments French aggression, and urges Britons to support the empire, condemning anti-British sentiment and urging virtue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
Britain
North America
Britannia
Britannia’s Sons In Arms, Applied To Succour Against the Invaders: iShe
Grathey
Great Britain
Atlantic
Sian
England
Wolfe
Howe
Sorleen
Doctor Framed by Water Conjuror Tale in a Courtly Jest
Awenove of Culpeper recalls a water conjuring prank where a doctor misreads a husband’s fall. A woman asks how many stairs he fell, the doctor guesses ten and then discovers the missing twenty. He prescribes based on the observed dress, leaving all parties amused by the ruse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elamour
Britain
God
Almot
A Description of the Polite World A Man of Honour
Fragmentary verse attacks a high minded man who breaks law and moral code. It praises fortune backing corrupt schemes and condemns a man of spirit always ready to aid vice and defend his deeds without shame. The lines imply public reproach of hypocrisy and settlement of personal ruin.
Second Edition of Apology to the Public
This Day reports the second edition of an apology to the public for starting the practice of physics including cures of the great with medicines sold as more efficacious. By Daniel Smith M D printed for the newberry and offered by bookfell ers in town and country.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Daniel’ Smith
Newbery
St Paul's Churchy Sard
Henry Ellis
Rester Studd
Gaiam
Church- Leigh
Egex
John. Norton
Marchant
Norton
Golden-square
Piccadilly
London
Kearfly
First Volume of the British Theatre Promotes a Grand Work
A notice touts The British Theatre as a planned collection with weekly play deliveries. It lists volumes and titles such as Zara Venice Preserved Jane Shore All for Love The Orphan and more, printed on fine paper for rightful owners. It claims authors’ rights and notes London publication by Lowndes Caflyn Nicoll Bladen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Zara
Venice
Jane Shore
Hutband
Damascus
A. Hill
Amiphytrian
Tate
King Lear
George Barnwell
Cato
Tamerlane
Earl of Essex
British Theatre
D’ Mother
London
T. Lowndes
T. Caflyn
W. Nicoll
S Bladen
Wealth of Almanac and Lottery Scams in 1770s London
A long advertisement pages describe bound red leather yearly almanac with calendars and tables, the Ladies Pocket Journal 1777, and a caution against impostors in lotteries. It includes claims of maps, European royalty, English finances, and a vendor warning about Hornsby and Pearce tickets, with testimonies and dubious medical drops.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Daly Journal
Germany
Switzerland
Europe
England
House of Peers
Fea
London
Prst
Court of Aldermen of London
Fielding
Walker
Paternotterson
Ladies Pocket Journal
Clara
Ferdinand
Negessary
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Breason
Myself
Valve
James
Hakedurr James
St. John’s College, Oxford
Fleming Pinkstan
St. Alban's Strelt
F. Newbery
St. Paul’s Church Yard
Dr. James
DoGar
Buton~street
George If
Meff, Gosling, Clive
Walter Merrey
King-street
Covent-garden
Merirs, Gosling, Clive, and Co
Messrs
Gosling
Clive
Walter
Merrey
Middlesex
G. Wright
N.B
J. AR
Lalliar
Darand Boogies
Hig House
Rathbone-place
Nicoll
Hornsby
Pozutercg
Mac Evant
PeCins
Han Zai
Gach
Ourchemes
Cornhill
Pearce
Joss
Horrisby
Hornsey and Pearce
Mr. Norton
Golden Square
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