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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Aug 01, 1767
Page
4
A letter signed JUVENAL decries greed and extravagance that corrupts the kingdom. It laments aristocrats selling estates for pensions and a general spirit of luxury from top to bottom, predicting ruin unless vice is curbed.
A Bermondsey Street letter to the London Evening-Post questions whether it is right before God to shield a confessed murderer allied by blood. The writer condemns pickpockets as more numerous than other thieves, laments lack of rewards for catching pickpockets, and urges vestry action to pay informants. He cites urban pickpocketing in Fleet Street and advocates parish effort, suggesting St. Bride’s take the lead.
A fragmented verse talks of wit and beauty with charm and grace and power to captivate minds. It hints at empire of beauty joined with good nature and notes that all view are slaves to beauty. The text then veers to a cryptic reference to a Christ-cross row and Honestus Vir attention.
Letters from Holland and Flanders describe complex political shifts and rising Confederacies. Accounts from Hanover to London note royal arrivals, battles, and market activity, with races, marriages, deaths, and ship movements interlaced with weather damage in the Low Countries and Corsican shifts.
The report lists stock prices and bond figures for India, Cre Cr, and An divisions with values from 1-half to 4 per Cry. It includes India Bonds totaling 3,245, navy and wa bonds, and long-run exchange bills. Hay and straw prices are shown for Whitechapel with hay from 30 5d to 6d? and straw per load 12s od to 17 85 od with a 3 per load charge.
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