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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Aug 01, 1780
Page
1
Publication details for The Lady's Magazine 1780 issue with copper plates and illustrations. Includes stories The Fortune Teller and The Adventures of Ella Were, poems, news summaries, and literary pieces by G Robinson. References to moral reflections and a dramatic dialogue about temptation and virtue.
The issue advertises the July 1780 Town and Country Magazine with engravings and a mix of articles. It notes trials at the Old Bailey and Surrey, memoirs of Colonel W and the Faithful Mistress, weather effects on writers, American war news, births marriages deaths, poetry, and various period pieces. Printed for A Hamilton Jn near St Johns Gate. sold by G Robinson in Paternoster Row. volumes available at 7s 6d.
The writer, famed in police and literary circles, forwards a copy of verses attributed to Lady Craven to a printer. The piece, titled Her Self, opens with contemplations on dreamt peace and a heart laid at the feet, then questions the charity, envy, and pity of the heart, exploring inner turmoil and longing.
Notices from London and ports describe profits on neutrally supplied naval stores to Cadiz and Ferrol, Jamaica ships reaching Cork and Dublin, appointments in the fleet, French privateers near the Isle of Wight, and various Atlantic convoy actions. Reports cover ship captures, muttering coastal disturbances, militia plans, weather, and local court and social events.
The War Office on July 29 1780 lists numerous commissions and promotions across regiments and militia. Names include Lieutenant Sir James Erskine Bart of 21 Dragons, Cornets and Ensigns in multiple regiments, Captains Lieutenants and Majors such as Francis Ja Scot and W Whitton, and officers from the Writ Norfolk Militia, 12th 16th 18th 34th 61st 69th and 52nd regiments plus the Huntingdonshire and Western fencible bodies.
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