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Newspaper
General Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Sep 30, 1773
Page
4
A satirical prologue on financial woes and bankruptcy. The speaker pleads credit exhausted, hints at selling works by lottery, and appeals to the audience to judge his honesty and wit. He jokes about selling stock and a wooden leg, urging mercy while claiming his fate rests with the town.
A curious postscript recounts an alleged origin of the Northumbrian burr through crossborder importation of people and language. It narrates ships drifting to the Tweed, foxes in the colony, widespread croaking speech, and descendants in Northumberland who kept a distinct tongue, with no clear national allegiance today.
A July 15 report from Smyrna notes a British lieutenant aboard an English frigate stabbed himself after a failed romance. he was moved to a hospital and is now said to be raving mad. Genoa reports a captain encountered Saletine rovers beyond Gibraltar. Vienna mentions health declines of generals Pelegrini and Notitz. Paris notes a gang of rogues near Istampes captured at Versailles, with fourteen seized near Sennaar.
A brief meditation from a reader in a quiet alehouse style, seeking rest from daily bustle. The note conveys a desire for calm and distance from public noise, inviting contemplation away from the world’s clamor.
A fragmentary diary style passage outlines a life of amiable partnership with a wife and two children, a large garden with arbors, a final library, few friends, simple domestic servants, temperance, and a retirement oriented rural retreat. It emphasizes training children in a suitable sphere and cherishing a single close confidant.
At Guildhall the poll for Lord-Mayor numbers were Wilkes 627 Bull 623 Sawbridge 0 Oliver 0. Reports describe parliamentary plans to discharge Civil List arrears, and discuss a Polish government draft with a republican king selection, a council led monarchy, and a 30 090 strong foreign headed army. Letters from Vienna Paris Dublin Petersburgh and Dublin note trade, Jesuit wealth, and Irish unrest amid ambassadors. Gasps of murder, calamitous shipwrecks, cheese fairs, and a train of local deaths fill the rest of the page.
The notice lists theatrical showings at Covent Garden and nearby venues including Every Man in His Husbands and Love in a Village with The Upholsterer, plus a flurry of Bond and Bank stock prices. It notes price movements on India, Navy, and Bank Annuities and various ditta listings, with times and dates spread across the day and week.
A London letter reports Edward Marqure's six year chronic illness ending after using Merchant's Drops by John Norton of Golden Square near Piccadilly. Norton warns buyers to beware counterfeits and notes bottles sold for six shillings at Fleet Street bookseller Kearfly with certificates of authentic handwriting.
Historic advertisement lists Ike's Grand Antidote and numerous medicines by DICEY and Company and others. Claims leaky cures for itch scurvy and skin disorders with Royal Patents, suggesting sale across Britain Ireland America and Europe. It promotes Dr Radcliffe Elixir and Bateman Pectoral Drops among a broad pharmacopeia with prices and counterfeit warnings.
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