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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Apr 16, 1772
Page
4
A letter from April 1772 discusses petitions in Parliament, factions, and accusations of impiety. It defends the decline of the petition, praises the debate's decorum, and warns enemies of the establishment while promising future notices. Also mentions famine claims and Prussian troop movements near Schaete.
Notice announces a lost bank note No K 527 dated February 11 1772 payable to Snow and Co or Bearer. Reward one guinea for return to David Jones No 5 Bread Street. Also Hampstead house to let immediately furnished with coach houses gardens hot houses and two small cottages with land and barn inquire of Messrs Welles and Furnivall Boswell Court Carey Street
IL K Yoshua Lawton of the Fea thers No 141 Cheapside announces a partnership with a principal manufacturer in Spitalfields. The firm Lawton and Company will run the Cheapside house and offer a new elegant silk assortment for spring and summer, ready for sale Monday next. They seek two or three young men to serve in the shop with good encouragement.
Prague dispatch reports Attorney Meulduhald announcing his oath discharge to defend the Queen and Count Strttensee. He vows scrupulous examination, no partiality, and conscience guiding his pen. Counsel Bang will plead for Count de Brandt amidst ongoing bread shortages in several Circles.
A long excerpt reviews Governor Pownall's corn bill to regulate import and export, proposing fixed laws to balance supply and price. It describes a dam-like mechanism letting surplus export while protecting growers, with import duty adjustments at set wheat price points. It also notes related political chatter, local agricultural societies, and assorted London items from the period.
The text suggests a figure claims to prudently oversee a great company's affairs while holding a near monopoly on alum. He, with a couple of close associates, has restricted access to alum to such an extent that many people believe the control is concentrated among them. The passage implies scrutiny of this concentration of power and its implications.
A late page note announces letters received including Cinna's Nephew Humanus Saffex Phocion and others will be discussed in the next issue The Old Fashioned Farmer's Letters and A Protestant Hibernicus Sagitarius Observator and more appear in forthcoming correspondence with Agricola and a Country Gentleman Remonstrance and Well-wisher among the titles await Tuesday's reference.
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