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Newspaper
General Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Sep 23, 1773
Page
4
Reflector notes concern over colonies swelling Britain's population and its impact on power. It warns emigration to America could depose the mother country, urging preemptive measures to deter and manage the exodus and preserve national wealth and strength.
Reader notes a dated inscription in Ampthill Park commemorating Queen Catherine wife of Henry VIII. The piece reflects on Henry’s divorce and the queen’s mistreatment, with Horace Walpole’s verse and references to Ampthill towers, a memorial described as recalling a nation’s wrongs and a king’s laws. The writer urges publication for a loyal reader, dated September 23.
Postscript details a marching move to the Crimea by General Pibileow with his corps, amid reports of Turkish corn sales refusal. Rome and Nimeguen items note Jesuit suppression in Austrian provinces, and various European military movements, fevers, shipwrecks, and aristocratic deaths.
Readable fragments show tides at London Bridge with times listed as morrow morning after 40 minutes, 12 minutes after 11 at night, Monday after 43 minutes in the morning, Tuesday after 12 in the morning, and 14 minutes after 12 at noon. The text is incomplete and timing units are unclear.
Davay Lane presents The Gamesters with Piggy Revels. Covent Garden offers Yesterday The Clandestine Marriage with Midas.
A garbled OCR fragment mentions bonds, Navy, and prices with references to 1761 and percent. The readable portion hints at financial items such as Indian bonds and bank notes, but essential details are missing, leaving an incomplete market or financial notice.
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