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Newspaper
General Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Sep 05, 1776
Page
3
Fragmented text reports varied items including British silent poetry, the island of Gab three vessels, Italian poets Corilla Olyhipica, and a Paris medals cabinet. It references the Capitol, Cuban isolation, and a Paris cabinet of ancient medals. Dublin notes aldermen testing for Lord Mayor, and Waterford gaol inmates charged with robbing a church charity box.
A Bristol section notes a Saturday marriage involving Rev Price of Merriot and Miss Polly Shellard, niece of Dr Waserland, with details of the ceremony at Park-freeton and related social mentions. The piece also records a Wrington quarry event and a Devon captain’s remarkable barley yield of 149 ears from one grain on an old cucumber bed, highlighting notable agricultural outcomes.
A weathered list details arrivals at Poole Falmouth Liverpool Yarmouth Dublin and Stockton. Ships include Neptune Syms from Newfoundland Glanville Anderson from Senegal Lilly from St Vincent’s Prince Orlyw Walton from Patersburgh Chilgrove Pitman Dispatch Warwick Bro thers Murphy Lucy Phillips from London and others.
Report notes tomorrow marks the wedding anniversary of their Majesties with servants at Kew. Convocation prorogued to Wednesday the 16th of October next. Robert Eden arrives in England and is received by the King. Rumors of a forthcoming French edict restricting trade with the Americans circulate. A Southampton letter dated September 4 disputes the loss of the Eliza.
Fragmentary report details ships at sea near Benfias and Londonderry harbour, cargo losses and a Spanish vessel, plus later notes on a Guild-like account, a fire at Little Peter Street workshop with no water, theft in the market, a drowned body recovered near Blackfriars Bridge, church sermon incident at St Peter's, and marriages and deaths including Miles Banshaw in Dublin and Euphemia Almack at Calais Farm.
Your EDITOR. SIR, . oo rons 'philanthropy alone, I am confident, I will be inducement:efficient for your publication of the under-written remedy, which 'may be salutary to thousands labouring under that mat lady, endemial to our island, .a consumption. Remedy for a Consaiription. No officer who had a consumptive complaint on his breast, was dissolving over,a chastine dihh-of fire, in a very close room, an equal van tity of a white pitch and yellow bees-wax,with an intention of ordering some bottles, and after having for some time breaghed in the yapaar aril ig from it, "he found the complaint in his breast greatly relieved. . This observation, extremely interesting to himself, determined him to continue for some days the same fumigation , he soon per ceived a considerable amendment, and at length ,was entirely cured. Whatever prejudices or ob jections may arise to this prescription, as 'Being suggested by chance, they will certainly be muc invalidated upon the recollection of the many useful and important discoveries which have been made by the same means. And it is, hoped, that any person who that make trial hereof, will give an ingenuous account to the public through this paper of the event.
An excerpt describes a formal dinner scene with a Duke present, noting etiquette, politeness, and subtle social tensions. The narrator recalls being seated near the Duke, the company’s behavior, and the emphasis on paying and receiving attention, reflecting on a system of refined propriety.
The writer contrasts Rome's ongoing religious life with England's weekly devotion. In Rome churches remain open, priests and crucifixes abound, and daily worship permeates the city. In England religion is described as periodic, with parish pews and secular pursuits dominating daily life.
An excerpt describes a journey to Bourdeaux in the south of France. The narrator seeks a recommendation to the Marthys pete de Richlien and visits the hotel near a duke. An officer guides the narrator to a chambre and invites residence, hinting at status from the introduction.
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