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Newspaper
General Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Sep 19, 1771
Page
4
Letters to the editor praise the king, warn against prerogative overreach, and urge unity against peers influence. Poll results at Guildhall show Borwick 803 Townsend 703 Jefferson 93 Dell 936 while discussions focus on the Popular Crosby Republican and Ministerial Marley factions.
A historical sermon condemns so called Patriots who would alter the constitution by raising freeholder qualifications. It warns against self interest and venality among Commons, recalls the Janissaries episode, and urges restraint to avoid civil upheaval. Corfe-Gaille, Sept. 18, 1771.
Citizens recall that the Hall was promoted by Lord Mayor and Mr Wilkes as a political move. The piece jeers at opposition, defends English deference to government, and notes events from St. Matthew’s day at Christ Church Newgate Street to speeches at Christ Hospital. It laments ministerial recess and discusses Salvadore’s Paris missions and Manila issues. It criticizes anti French sentiment and calls for civility toward foreigners while reporting on Portsmouth fire inquiries and Oakhampton’s self-rule.
A crowded report from Dublin notes Mr Powell hatter’s shop in Little Ship-street burns with three children dead. London and Covent Garden suffer scandalous talk of criminals who fled the realm. A suspicious vendor of used cards is charged after offering old packs for high prices and triggering an Exchequer inquiry. Marriages, deaths, and a gruesome infant murder are sketched, with brutal family tragedy in Nightingale history and a wagoner killed near Goginagog-hills.
Fragmented text appears to outline times for events labeled church and king-17 Rex in London. Mentions mornings and afternoons across several days with unusual numerals. No clear names, places, or concrete actions emerge beyond generic time references.
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