Poor Infant Delayed at Hospital for Lack of Care
A correspondent notes a fourteen week old infant detained in a hospital due to insufficient support for distressed infants. The writer, not a governor, cites pupil reports from the faculty about care and mentions an apothecary's widow trained as a midwife by the gentlemen. Dated St James's April 10.
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St. James’s
Gross-Funs
Vienna
Baron de Penckler
Achdukes
Baron van Scheen
Olmutz
Simon Helcey
Florence
Versailles
Bailli de Frou- Jay
Malta
Paris
The Destructive Passion of Play and Amanda’s Shame
A moral letter condemns gaming as ruinous to virtue and domestic happiness. It tells of Amanda, married to a merchant, drawn by cards into vice, losing her reputation and support, and ending in hospital care as her health and social standing crumble beneath the lure of gambling.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London Evening-Post
Meres
Garth
Amanda
Mail from Holland reports official removal in Turkey
Dated March 1 dispatch notes Beilikgi Effendi displaced from his post during Ramadan. Georgia turmoil grows as the Porte vows violent measures after prior failures. Stockholm March 25 reports troops in Upland and Sudermania ordered to retreat to quarters nightly under strict penalties.
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Holland
Constantinople
Beilikgi-Effendi
Georgia
Stockholm
Upland
Sudermania
Nineteenth Century London Narrows In On Loyalties And Marriages
London society hears rumors of royal visitors and nuptials as Prince Albert of Saxony weds Archduchess Maria Christina and hints of a Portland dukedom marriage with Lady Dorothy Cavendish surface. Sheriffs and MPs change hands, while Lisbon reports Dutch naval honors and Piccadilly plans gain. News from Hanover notes a general’s death.
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London
Prince of
Brunswick
Corsica
Traty
Alderman ‘*Trecothick
Guildhall
Clarkwood
Vienna
Albert of
Saxony
Maria Christina
Duke of Portland
Dorothy Cavendish
Duke of Devonshire
Kenyan
Gredington
Flinchhire
Miss Lloyd
Penylan
Denbigashire
Hanover
Sieur
John Frederick Bocke de Wulffingen
Bunswick Luneburg
Thomas Lyster, Fry
Salop
Bourclay
Hexham
Piccadilly
Nova Scotia
Saltpetre Bank
Harrison
Billingsga'e
Trade and ship arrivals with vessel notices and local tragedies
A late eighteenth century shipping brief reports weigh-scale offences and local accidents. A Clare Market burgher faced a magistrate for selling meat short of weights. A woman and child were found drowned near Kedi-iteet road. Excise Officer Mr. Collins fell from a West Indiaman into a sugar lighter and broke his back. Three ships entered inwards and nine outwards with imports including kid skins, raisins, oats, indigo, and exports of lead, Brith corn priits, sugar, and rum bound for various destinations. Several vessels, including Hannah Mead Venture and others, are listed with destinations in the Downs, Weymouth, Newnhams, and more. Wind S W.
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Clare Market
Kedi-iteet Road
Collins
Spain
Holland
Dunkirk
Italy
Quebec
Cork
Africa
Deal
Downs
Hannah, Mead
Leghorn
Carolina
Piiend
Philadelphia Venture
Pearce
Detlard
Attwood
Ae Thomas
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Wilber
Tdigit
London Bridge
India
Priges
St. Jaseses
Tay
Navy
Dito
Long Ann
England
America
Hocargts
Henry Lorine
Ae Ee Me Ek
Strand
Ess
Bratif
Bengap
Henry Vansiet
HLM
J. Newbery
Faethe
Denisley
Pallanianit Robson
Bardan
Bardana
Iicomes
N.B
Iris Foldac
Baldwin’s
Bookfeller
Pater-aufter-Row 5
Ridley
Bookfeler
Borcom
St. Jame ’s-Street
An .Desagnedition Ee Ig Ta Thyee Wataraks
D. N Sy
Christ’s Tatical
Pletcher’s
St. Pau’s Church-Yard
Dover-Street
Nodes’s
Northumberland House
Lamly’s
Fish-Street Hill
Rothwell
New Bond-Street
Barhard’s
Cockspur-Street
Perry's
Royal Exchange
Warren
Marybone-Screech
Jesus
William Burkitt
M.A. Ets
Dedham
Essex
T._Osborne
H. Woodfal
A. Millary B
Dod
W. Strah
Wale
Grignion
Temple Henry Croxer
Earl of
Hillborough
Thomas Willams
M.D
Samuel Glarx
J. Wilson
Fey
J. Fletcher
S. Paul’s Church-Yard
Oxford
J. Coote
Pater-nofter
Fletcher and
Hadfent
Cambridge
W.iSmith
Dublin
Great
Britain
Ireland
James'’S. Powerr
Bible
Sun
Sc. Paul’s
Church Yard
Great Briton
Iireland
James
de Sevigne
Countefe
Grignan
Bayle
Voligire
Lewis XIV
Batteux
Bouhier
Pacas
P. Ag
Paternofter Row
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