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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Apr 30, 1763
Page
4
A mixed dispatch from London includes letters about Havana prize ships and Spanish men of war, Corsican actions, and a Neapolitan Tartan's peril. It reports maritime losses near Brest and Portmouth milking cargo figures, plus local notices of robberies and road reforms, with prices and stock quotes for the day.
Parliament approves budgets for the navy including 30,000 seamen at 4? per man per month for 13 months, hospital and Greenwich provisions, shipbuilding and repairs, and forces in Britain and abroad. Deficiencies are covered by duties, annuities, and lotteries with notes on conversions to four percent annuities. Additional duties on wines and cider are enacted to fund these expenditures.
The narrator recounts a midnight visitation by two spectres claiming to be from the underworld. One orbier, calling himself an auditor, admits penning falsehoods to defame the virtuous and praises infernal patronage. The other corroborates, noting a power struggle and votes in hell. A verse about Brentford church is attached. The parish minister departs for two years to the south of France.
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