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Newspaper
General Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Sep 26, 1771
Page
3
A fragmentary theater notice discusses Shakespearean lines on prudence and social conduct, praising a performance featuring Ophelia by Mrs. Mattoicks and a simple entertainment by Bickerstaff. It notes the moral lesson of integrity in Sally and Thomas, amid a musical setting by Dr. Arne that earned repeated applause over seasons.
A letter to the Editor argues for urgent reforms by the First Magistrate of London including market regulation, coal trade control, and wage limits for journey men and servants. It warns of London’s crowded growth, abandoned fields, rising housing, and wasteful wages fueling social ills, urging unity and decisive governance to restore public welfare.
A brilliant young man harms a woman by marrying her, his friends desert him, they fall into poverty with many beggar offspring. An uncle condemns him then offers a humiliating remedy a newspaper reader post at eighty pounds yearly, with heirs to follow after death.
I RELAND Dublin Sept 21 Lord Lieutenant is so indisposed at Leixilin seat as not to be able to come to town.
Ships arriving and sailing from the port include Mary, Smith bound for Jamaica. Boston Packet Lyde for Boston. Barbadoes Planter Blackburn for Barbadoes. Bourdeaux Packet Jenkins for Bourdeaux. Queen of Hungary Urmston for Venice and St. Thomas. Salderton for St Andrew's. Colebrook Reevely for Plymouth. London Hird for Dublin. Eben Holmes for Lancaster. Several vessels pass by the Amity including Ann and Elizabeth Harrison Providence etc. lists arrivals from Petersburgh Stockholm Hamburgh North Berzen Revel City of Hamburgh Ko neunfhursh Riga Miem.1 and more names noted.
Parliament will be prorogued to November 26 and Convocation to November 27. Queen Victoria’s literary tastes noted, and a sharp exchange between the Prince of Wales and the Bishop of Oxford is recalled. Reports cover elections for Bridge Master, sheriff aims, royal illness, and various naval, civil, and social notices including marriages and deaths.
Multiple notices describe sales including 15 tons of whale oil and whale fins from the ship Exeter at Swale's Wine-Cellar, Exeter, and a public auction at the King's Arms Inn Great Berkhampstead offering lots across Chesham, Berkhamstead, and surrounding parishes. Auctioneers Eyres and Maberly urge inquiries via Christ's Hospital London and the inn.
An 18th century notice extols lemon salt as the pure acid extract of lemon, praised for flavoring sauces and quick removal of stains from fabrics. The ad claims stability, readiness year round, and superiority to fresh fruit, offered wholesale and retail by William Schumer in Cockspur Street and J Price in Leadenhall Street among others.
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