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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Aug 12, 1777
Page
4
The excerpt from Rollin's Antient History discusses Tyresus King of Lydia famed for wealth and pomp. It notes his habit of measuring happiness by riches and the courtesy of flatterers. Seneca counsels princes to accept honest advice and beware the instability of fortune.
A fragmentary poem or note requests insertion in the London Evening Post to encourage a young writer and praises an abandoned privateer dispute. It references a Fox and a ship, the Cromwell, Tory gloss, and a satirical tone about memorials in the Gazette.
The London Evening Post praises Mrs Barry with high, ceremonial lines describing her as unmatched and virtuous. The verse extols her as a mirror of a rising land, greater than Nature, and exalted in mind and worth beyond compare.
A damaged 18th century notice from August 37 1777 to the proprietors of the East India Stock requests support for THOMAS CHEAP Ef replacing Hednesiy the 7oth instant. It lists names of shareholders and agents including George Wombwell William Devaynes Richard Becher, James Moffat, Samuel Peach, and others in a formal vote call.
A historical notice from August 1777 shows Thomas Cheap requesting support for a position on the East India Directors panel, naming George Cuming Richard Hall John Manship and John Michie among others and urging a vote on the 20th instant. Another notice informs the public that estates of Right son Lord Montfort including the capital mansion at Horse Heath Cambridge are now sold by private contract after earlier auction plans.
Postscript from Philadelphia June 4 reports Washington's dispatch of General Parsons praising Colonel Meigs and his officers for destroying twelve enemy brigs and sloops at Sag Harbor on Long Island. Meigs led 170 men across Sound by whale boats to seize vessels and forage, with 90 prisoners returned to Guildford in 25 hours. officers and soldiers praised for bravery and restraint.
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