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Newspaper
General Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Sep 24, 1771
Page
3
A period review assesses a Shakespeare era program including The Beggar’s Opera influenced pieces. It praises the overture by Dr Peputh and the singing to known airs while faulting actors for misplacing lines. Vernon as Mac Heath shines. Miss Pope and Miss Clive noted for vivacity and mimicry.
A review discusses the stage comedy clandestine marriage by David Garrick and George Colman. It notes strong authorial merit, well discriminated characters, and a plot borrowed with advantages from masterful execution, while criticizing an impropriety some readers found objectionable.
The verse traces seasons as stages of a woman's life from youth to marriage and motherhood. It celebrates summer’s bloom, autumn’s fruits, and warns against fading charms, urging prudent virtue and steady virtue rewarded in later life.
A lime carrying vessel from Whitehaven to Dunverits was driven on rocks by a strong breeze near the Water of Oar in Galloway. Five people stranded, two saved but two children perished as mothers cried out for help. Greenock reports a foundered sloop afterpassing the Craig and Lachryanghe with 16 or 12 men aboard. no further details yet.
A list of ships and captains arriving at pos with origins including Petersburgh Neath Memiel Boxholme Amfterdaas Gottenburgh Norway Stettin Ireland Maryland Waterford Riga Cork Petersburgh Dominica Cadiz Cork Riga Stettin Stockholm and St Eustatia. Vessels include Richard Murray Hopewell Klinkert Two Brothers Seven Stars Lady Irvine and more with destinations Dartmouth Plymouth Milford Coombes.
Intelligence dated Berlin September 14 reports Mr du Swadray the French Charge des Affaires has contrived to send word to merchants and Jews of the city, as if he had re-
The column compiles letters from Leaden Hall Street and Guildhall with updates on Bengal governance, dividends, and arrests, plus sailings, ship reports from Antigua and Boston, hop and milk prices, and a stream of local notices. It includes marriages, deaths, crime reports, weatherless musings, and a vivid slice of metropolitan life in a late 18th century newspaper.
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