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Newspaper
General Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Sep 08, 1774
Page
4
The Harv est Moon appears for several nights around the Autumnal Equinox with rising times nearly constant, despite common belief that it shifts each night. The article explains this as a natural result of the Moon’s motion relative to the Sun, noting variations across seasons and the general pattern of full moons aligning with seasonal quarters.
Paris reports reveal several suspected for secret correspondence with state affairs have been arrested and sent to the Bastille. The Archbishop is ordered to stay out of temporal matters and Madame Louise is likewise restricted. The Abbé Marcie of the Calais de France is moved from the Bastille to Bicetre amid arrests.
A morning coach robbery near Stukely Huntingdonshire ends with the guard firing a blunderbuss at the highwayman, who dies after confessing a prior robbery. Reports from Edinburgh Warsaw Paris and Vienna discuss beggar laws Corsican politics and Ottoman relations, plus royal election moves and a Hanoverian birth.
A mixed report from London and surroundings notes a local funeral and ob servation travels by astronomers Maf́élyne and Reuben Burrow to Scotland at the Royal Society's request. It covers council election results, market prices at Leadenhall and Exeter Road, a coach robbery inquiry, and various crime and weather items with periodic news from Edinburgh and Westminster.
A fragmented country wide financial note lists stock prices and bonds with lines about tides at London Bridge. It records time based high and low tides for tomorrow and the following days, plus various bank and government securities figures and long annuities.
Public Enson and Co announce a new state lottery at No 24 King Street Cheapside. Purchasers must register their names on back of original tickets to prevent selling more shares than owned. Before drawing tickets are banked in England and a list posted at the Royal Exchange to prove ownership. Drawing set for Monday, Rath of November.
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