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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Apr 11, 1767
Page
4
Readers debate the wool trade decline and government aid to stop France draining English wool while a London lottery fan defends gaming as a state asset. Correspondents argue for faster measures to protect commerce and land values amid price pressures and moral censure.
Morning scene by Hyde Park Bridge amid a crowd around a well dressed man found drowned in the river. The writer notes the parapet wall is only five to six inches high and proposes immediate repairs to prevent fatal accidents for riders and passengers crossing the Royal Park bridge.
A drowning incident reveals a water-filled eight foot deep bath along a public path near Hyde Park Gate. The writer urges the Board of Works to fix the nuisance to prevent more accidents. The deceased is identified as Mr. Burke, a surveyor of buildings, who left a family unprovided for.
An 18th century verse tale recounts Belphegor the fiend’s mortal life test in London. He must marry and live as a good husband for ten years, facing debts, social bustle, and a nagging wife, discovering Earth’s woes rival Hell’s. The piece lampoons marriage, finery, and financial ruin through sharp satire.
Mails from Holland and Flanders report frequent conferences between Senators and Ministers of the Crown. Polish rebels form a confederacy at Thorn with Elbing and Dantzick voting to join. Roughly 30,000 Russian troops march near Warsaw under General Soltikow as Austria notes investiture ceremonies and a fatal fire in Landstrass on the emperor's presence.
Maritime and court news recounts Capraja fortress capitulation to Corsicans last Sunday with garrison taken as prisoners of war. Paris and Madrid items note officials, arrivals, and a 105 year old Valencia native's death. Denmark and Naples reports cover gifts of horses and animals, and Franco-Danish correspondence.
A collection of London notices reports on price hopes linked to reformers, duties on Spanish wool, and a proposed extra sixpence monthly for seamen to aid Greenwich Hospital. It records a Montgomery county land tax relief vote, the arrival of an Amador of the Moroccan Emperor, private lock up houses for shipping men to the East Indies, prison reforms, a marriage plan for a Drury Lane performer, and a death of Mrs Tomlinson the widow milliner.
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