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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Apr 25, 1767
Page
4
A lamb wanders at dusk near a wolf den. The wolf confronts the frightened creature and demands sustenance. The lamb pleads for mercy, citing innocence, but the wolf rejects mercy and kills the lamb. The poem concludes that wolves exist among humans as well.
The dispatches report visits of British nobles to Edinburgh and Glasgow and meals with the French ambassador in Soho Square. Paris notes recount the Dauphin procession at Notre Dame, while Madrid describes Jesuit seizures and property confiscation as well as Jesuits seeking naturalization in Britain.
Letters from Florence report government orders to bakers to increase loaf weight by four ounces amid grain abundance. Royal Society fellows include John Malliet and Henry Watson. deaths and crimes recap as a drowning, a horse accident, a public-house brawl, and a butcher’s shop theft mix with European news from Vienna and Brussels.
An April letter from Chester notes executions and condemnations for murder and sheep stealing, with distraught details of Bostock’s execution after poisoning his daughter-in-law and her child. Further report describes Bateman’s murder by Linney during a cheese arrest, and a Newcastle seizure of brandy and prints from a Dutch ship. Market meat prices and vessel movements are listed alongside weather notes and shipping entries.
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