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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Aug 08, 1771
Page
4
The piece laments high meat prices and a surge in sheep breeding profits as feeder lands shift to pasture and turnip crops. It argues this “turned husbandry” deprives markets of mutton, raises costs, harms wheat yields, and risks national famine unless policies revert to traditional farming practices and preserve stock and grain.
A letter proposes a mock catechism listing political figures and notions of the era. It includes quips about the Ministry, Lords of the Treasury, Horne, Lowther, Crosby, and Lord Bute, framing contemporary politicians as religious parables.
The text presents a series of archaic questions and answers naming figures such as Lord H g t n s wife Townsend Sawbridge Oliver Bellas and Sir Stephen Theodore Janssen. It includes a query about a man who sold his birthright and another about a murder of a brother, with references to Lord B g n and Samuel Vaughan.
A London Evening Post note records the Worshipful Company of Haberdashers facing pressure not to block a path near the Hoxton hospital. The writer explains deep sentimental ties to the way, recounting christening and burial journeys, and vows to support the path’s freedom with a funeral sermon benevolence.
In a London Evening Post excerpt dated July 30, 17xx, Spur compares a modern political skirmish to a venomous viper. Horze and Wilks clash as the viper’s venom wanes, leaving Wilkes unfazed while the brood is undone by its own stench and self destruction.
The Stamp Commissioners announce daily attendance at the Wine Licence Office from 8:30 AM to 1:00 PM until the 25th inst for granting Wine Licences. They warn that sellers of wine by retail without licences will be prosecuted. All ale and spirit licensers must produce those licences when applying.
To be sold by auction in two sets at Swan Inn Harborough on Tuesday the 24th of September from eleven to one if not sold by private contract. First lot eight ancient inclosures of improvable pasture totalling over 111 acres in the Lordship of Lubenham Leicester. Lease to John Ingram Foxton at 751 per annum expires Lady Day next. Second lot two closes near Lubenham, six acres plus, leased to Thomas Webb Harborough at nine pounds per annum with two years unexpired. Also another six acres plus leased to Thomas Whynent Great Bowden at nine guineas. For particulars enquire Isaac Carter Attorney Leicester. tenants will show premises.
From Holand Petersourgh July 12 the Precop garrison of 81 men and 781 Turkish, along with officers, surrendered at sea to Varna on condition of arms not to be heard during the war with the Rufsians. They left 74 brass cannons 56 prisoners 3 pateraroes and 10 mortars. Our losses were 25 killed 135 wounded and 6 missing with enemy losses over 1200 killed or wounded 23 prisoners. Basil July 22 Fraverfeld fire devastates much of the town. Vienna July 23 Austrians seize Cracow Palatinate and Sandomir diffie occupying 234 villages and 15 towns. Warsaw July 24 Tartars submit to Russia. Stockholm July tg Prince Charles seeks marriage to Princess Philippina Brandenburgh Schwedt. Madrid July 5 great affairs between Courts with rapid dispatches from Paris to Versailles. contents undisclosed.
Extract from a Stockholm letter recounts how the king receives subjects thrice weekly, listening to private grievances and granting immediate redress. A Dalecarlian carried a village petition directly to the king, was told to present himself, spoke with the monarch, and left assured. The item also notes military and political rumors, arrivals, marriages, weather, and stock prices from London and Portsmouth.
The Society of London Annuants invites admission of Protestant members at a meeting held at the Half Moon Tavern Gracechurch Street on Thursday evening the 8th. Members aged fifty receive fifty pounds per annum for life, with conditions for earlier entrants and a ten year term. Printed admission details are available at several London locations.
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