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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Apr 04, 1780
Page
1
On April 3, 1784 in Bath a speaker urges that if prayers and petitions fail, more vigorous measures should be used to move the Legislature. The address stresses that while prayer may please, rejection warrants stronger callings to action by the people.
A large April 5 1780 London gathering of East India Proprietors nominated six men for director roles in the crisis affecting the company. The list includes Richard Becher Benjamin Booth Lionel Darell Robert Gregory John Townson and George Vansittart. The committee and meeting urged proprietors to support the slate, cautioned against prejudging elections, and thanked Joseph Hurlock for his public spiritedness while inviting future support.
A public notice states that a nomination of candidates to represent Cambridge County in Parliament will be made at the adjourned County Meeting in Cambridge on Monday April 10 at twelve o'clock. The announcement follows a March 25 gathering at the Rose Tavern.
Begins drawing the 24th of June next. Richardson and Goodluck announce a new advantageous plan in the Trith State Lottery. Tickets priced at two guineas one guinea and half a guinea entitle purchasers to capital prizes paid in money with no deductions. Offices at Bank Buildings Cornhill and 8 facing the King's Mews Charing Cross display schemes and sale of tickets and shares, from half to a sixteenth part, amid past large prize shares. No. 28,721 last lottery prize of twenty thousand pounds was shared among fifteen.
To be sold by auction on Monday May 8 between 4 and 7 pm at The House and Gardens of Phillips Glover near Hill Lincoln. Describes mansion rooms, staircases, ceilings, parlours, bedchambers, kitchens, outbuildings, stables, hay yard, and two acre garden with greenhouse and terrace. Prospective buyers urged to inquire via Mr John Greetham Bracebridge or Mr Preston Lincoln or Phillips Grever London. sale by private contract before May 14.
YORN. HANSON, formerly of New Bond Street, now at Mr Moody's Manufactory Bruton Street Berkeley Square announces a new location and ongoing line of polished steel rove-grates bath and pantheon hoves heating roves kitchen ranges kitchen furniture and patent tinning for iron and copper fittings. A 5 percent discount for ready money.
The London Evening Post urges the Freeholders of Somersersuire to attend their General Meeting at Wellon on the eleventh for a second time. It stresses peaceful, constitutional aims, warns against misrepresentation, and calls members to support the Committee's resolutions to restore dignity to the Crown, independence to Parliament, and confidence to the people.
The House of Commons debated the supply vote of 4,400,000 pounds to pay off exchequer bills and proceeded with readings on the Ickenham inclosure, wine duty, and ramp duty bills. A new county elections clause limits voting to land taxed persons from January 1781. Reports from Brest note fleets heading to America and Spain's line divisions. Irish magistrates resist English laws affecting deserters, risking army recall. Dutch factions realign with Britain, while bread prices hold steady. Several ship captures and privateering actions are reported near Dunkirk, Halifax, and New England.
Birmingham April 4. At Leicester Offices the actions brought by Dr Barnie his son and tnnis against Hinckley constables for apprehending them in April last as liable to the late impress art were compromised. Eight actions in all six defaulted defendants and two defended with little foundation. Plaintiffs sought accommodation, defendants paid a trifling sum as public acknowledgment of the offense and costs.
Items report ships seized by the French in the Leeward Islands and St Domingo, a York stage coach robbery near Hollo Way, followed by a waggon heist. A lottery fraud case at Newgate ends with six months imprisonment and pillory. Local obits list deaths including Capt Broughton and Sir Francis Blake.
The article praises Bell's Birth Library offering an extended plan at one guinea per year, highlighting widespread appeal across social ranks. It notes many can’t afford numerous publications, yet benefit from access to the day’s popular trifling prints and a collection valued above others in the kingdom, with steady subscriber accommodation.
Five thousand pounds may be won for half a guinea in the Government State Lottery for Ireland, with a new plan by Nicholson and Co. offering chances at one guinea each. Printed particulars are free at their offices in Cornhill and Westminster. Tickets and shares are issued from the original State Lottery, with no breaks to a prize.
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