Prices and storms in Asia and French incidents abroad
Prices of new shares in the Asiatic Company rose with one sale at 1455 Rixdollars. A violent hail storm at St Germain du Petit Thouars caused deep ground cover and crops destruction, with large hail and a reported earthquake. Fire near Notre Dame killed nine, burned surrounding homes, and claimed multiple lives including a woman escaping fumes.
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Frances Ne
Asiatick Company
Agg
Rixdollars
Saumur
Fulgaxs
St. Germain du Petit-Thouars
Chinon
Postiers
Tve
Paris
Sebastian de Poilvillain
Marquis de Crenay
Count de Montaign
Grandville
Normandy
Dublin Castle
John Gunning
Regiment of Foot
Jos
Dublin
Tholfel
Henry Bevin
George Faulkner
Bert
Earl of Lowth
Kildare-Street
George Lowther
Ratoath
Ponsonby
Earl of
Meath
Berborough
York and Liverpool trade and local calamities report
York reports imports at Liverpoole including flour from Philadelphia wheat from Virginia rice from Carolina oats from Dublin and pork. Local prices show wheat sold at 5s 4d per bushel beef and mutton prices noted. A death of Miss Athalea Robinson is reported and a poison inquiry spans Escrick Hemingbrough urging druggists to reveal arsenic or poison sources. Leeds notes the 7th Dragoons under General Howard arriving from York to quarter there.
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Country News
York
Liverpoole
Philadelphia
Virginia
Carolina
Dublin
Tadcaster
Iles
Selby
Alathea Robinson
Tancred Robinson
Newby
Bart
Escrick
Hemingbrough
Leeds
Howard
Levee at St James's and Privy Council Plan Unsettled
London reports a levee at St James's followed by a Privy Council meeting that disbanded before three o'clock leaving planned Ministry changes unsettled.
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London
St. James's
Privy Council
Elizabeth Brownrica Charged With Cruel Treatment of Apprentices
A historical notice states Elizabeth Brownrica of Fleet Street is charged on oath with cruelly treating two apprentice girls endangering their lives. A reward of ten guineas is offered by St Dunstan in the West church wardens for apprehending her. her son Joan Brownricey, a painter by trade, is also charged on oath as being necessary to the cruel treatment, with a two guinea reward offered for his capture.
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Prince of Wales
Merl. Bach
Abel
Royal Palace
Kensington
Duke of Cumberland
Wilkes
Viscount Townishend
Norfolk
St. James’s
Henry Seymour *Conway, Esq
Park-place
Prince de la Lippe
Broad-street
Paris
Conde
Haynault
Macon
Valenciennes
Surry
Hants
England
Cherney Fair
Smithfield
Lord Clive
Fair Indies
Nabob
Stewart
Edinburgh
Florida
Company of Grocers
Robert Ladbroke
Gresham Committee
Guildhall
Robert Pratt
Richard Edwards
Very, Esq
Thomas Bradshaw
Treasury
Duke of Grafton
Charles Lownds
Excise
Blackheath School
Thomas Jennings
Williams
Christchurch
Oxford
Westminster
Merchant-Taylors Schools
Sion College
Hundred of Blackheath
William Gordon
Church of Mobille
Allen
Middlesex Hospital
Drapers Hall
Hickman Young
Samuel Read
Aldersgate
Southwark
Jamaica
Anamaboa
Guiney
Vels
Pateraroes
Dunkirk
1St Inft
Maurice Calcutt
dItis
Amelia
Broderick
Ireland
Aibraltar
Figuera
Cummins
Waterford
Dublin
James Dalby
Dalby
Welbeck Street
Portugal
Warwick-street
Anna Maria Cadogan
Lord Cadogany
Christ- Church
Middlesex
Roger West
Hoxton
Crane
Spital“Naas
Inesterday
St. George’s‘church
Bloomsbury
Thomas Clifton
Sally Austin
Southampton Street
John Denne
St. Mary Lambeth
St. Leonard
Shoreditch
Rochester
Lambeth
Burleigh-Street
Jack
Master
St. George’s Hospital
Kent
Matthew Wornell
Greenwich
Simpson
Ganglane
Fetter-lane
Poultry Compter
Manning
Red Lyon
Islington Road
Fox and Crown
Highgate
Fran Tloyb
Andrew Frodi
Cork
West Indies
Defenda
Whidward
Barbadoes
Viscount Townshend
Peerels
Peerela
Fellers
Berwick
Europe
Warksy and
Marybong Street
Golden - Iquirs
Elizabeth
James Brownrica
Flower-de-Luce-Court
Fleet-Street
St. Dunstan
Joan
Satirical quiz on the morals of a "fine gentleman" in Parliament
A satirical Q and A condemns money obsessed society. It mocks marriage as wealth, a wife as fortune, and a gentleman's supposed conscience, detailing bribes for a seat and endless self interest tied to public purse. It targets MPs, gambling, mistresses, and debt avoidance.
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Brivery
London Evening Post Letter On Smuggling Across Counties
A correspondent writes from Kent and Sussex areas lamenting the widespread smuggling trade. He notes the author’s residence across coast and inland towns and condemns the iniquitous practice alongside its consequences.
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London Evening Post
Meres
Kent
Sussex
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Marx Axensipe
Royal Society
College of Physicians
Her
Peter Motteux
W. Cater
Lion Street
Holnburn
Johnson and Davenport
Evésing-Pok
Svvieres
Rink
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