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Newspaper
General Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Sep 12, 1771
Page
2
A reader letter criticizes modern dress obsessions and social vanity echoing Imperial Rome. It laments rampant extravagance, class confusion, and the ruinous pull of fashion, urging a sumptuary law to curb excess and preserve frugality amid national decline.
A Geneva Evening Post reader recounts a ship voyage from St Helena to Batavia with Capt Nathaniel Paul and Egmont. A self styled Duke of Gordon impersonator is exposed aboard. The tale includes attempts to verify identity, a missing leg from fever, and a dramatic exchange on board the Harcoasti ship.
A British observer at Calais describes two smuggling boats carrying lace worth at least six thousand pounds aimed to land for a lady of quality near D J. The informant said the goods were delivered safely that night and the mystery surrounding the Lady remains.
A dying man confesses his past misdeeds to a Paris Cardinal and pleads for pardon. The Cardinal admires his wit, speaks to King Louis XIII, and secures mercy. Boxzewal is freed and vows lifelong service to his rescuer, who uses him in various trusted tasks.
The account extols Mr. Bakewell of Dishley as a leading English farmer who improved cattle and sheep through a hệ of small-boned, well-malted stock. It describes his Lincolnshire and Lancashire lines, the Taraferny bull, gentleness in handling, superior carcass value, and hardy, efficient feeding. It notes his experiments on rot in sheep and wintering methods, plus stallion stock prices and meticulous records from Dishley 1776.
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