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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Aug 01, 1772
Page
4
A Friend to Merit rebuts FRANCIS MOORE with strong criticism of his claims that horses drive high provisions prices. The letter questions Moore’s ingenuity and public spirit while arguing that land improvement and farm hoarding, not horses, explain scarcity. It challenges Moore’s remedies and decries reliance on taxes to curb price increases.
A letter warns Mr. Moore to stay within his means and avoid pretending expertise in tax schemes. The writer urges humility, rejects the notion that horses cause national calamity, and cautions against using false signatures to gain public praise.
Printer of the London Evening Post receives verses attributed to the Rev Dr Delap about the death of Lady Wilhelmina Shelley, wife of Sir John Shelley Baronet, who died in childbirth. The poem praises her meek mind and maternal sacrifice, noting the infant’s life spared and heavenly watch over the resting child.
A Wiltshire county letter to the London Evening Post urges impartial coverage of two noble figures as defendents of independence. It notes a Countess Stolberg marriage linking one noble to the Pretender and remarks the other noble Lord's French lineage as a point of derision.
To be SOLD by AUCTION by Mr Burnsall in separate lots by order of the executrix of the late Mr Dagnall the rich crops of Wheat Barley Oats Pease and Tares now growing on the two farms mentioned. Also cart horses and other articles to be sold Printed particulars available at principal inns in Watford Uxbridge Saint Albans Hemel Hempstead Hertford Miss Dagnall Watford has plans and Mr Burnsall at Berkley Square London
A London crowd contemplates harsher penalties and fairer laws following the conviction of Capt. Jones for sodomy. The piece urges Parliament to adjust penalties, reduce executions at Tyburn, and reflect on divine judgment, with related political and naval news and local distress.
Mr Robert Brand of Lorg-Acre Rup ture cures to his Majesty's Royal Hospital of Greenwich announces that his Royal Patent Elastic Trusses have cured more ruptures than in ages and condemns rival doctors as ignorant and cruel. He seeks no reward beyond the recognition his invention deserves.
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