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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Aug 16, 1766
Page
4
SPECULATOR laments ornamental balconies and shades as public nuisances in a heated letter. He condemns commissioners for proposing shade bans while arguing such orders ruin merchants and risk sun damage to goods and brains. He calls their power ill-placed and urges reconsideration.
A citizen urges stricter limits on stagecoach passengers after frequent accidents. He cites twenty people per coach, the risk to horses, and deadly outcomes from overturns and being run over. He petitions authorities to enforce lawful passenger limits and curb reckless driving to protect lives.
The writer advises the poor to use artichoke leaves infused in boiling water as a remedy for jaundice. A quarter pint of the infusion is taken each morning fasting and at night before bed until cured, claiming a few days for full relief. The piece criticizes other reformers and praises a noble peer, urging practical aid for the industrious poor.
An extract lists a tonic recipe with cattile oil juniper and artichoke leaves for jaundice and dropsy, then shifts to a sweeping, sensational intelligence from an island near Utopia describing a betrayed Pat roisma fallen on hard times, a noble inquiry into a German general in French service, resignations, reform in religious orders and a chase for a missing Sieur Claron. Also reports on Stockholm affairs, Earthquakes, and Barnet and Burford horse races with detailed entries.
A fragmentary notice promises a gouty Shoe and an old Pair of Crutches as reward for returning a lost, supposedly stolen item described as patriotic with many fine flowers of rhetoric and tropes. It mentions printed queries about the late Election of Sheriffs and names several cryptic figures.
News from London states Prince Henry Frederick will be speedily titled Duke of Lancaster. Sir Edward Hawke may command the convoy bringing over the Prince of Orange. Two vessels load naval stores at Portsmouth for Gibraltar and Port Mahon. A Corsican religion change is rumored with potential foreign aid. A plan to send healthy poor youth to populate East and West Florida is presented to the Ministry. An extract from Paris dated Aug 8 notes the Castle of Lunéville granted to the Gendarmerie for winter quarters.
High Water at London triage notes times and prices for bank stock and various bonds. Entries include values for India ditto Old An New Ann Consols and Navy issues with per cent and fraction notations, plus exchange bills and scrip figures. The fragmented list preserves historical bond and stock identifiers and their quoted prices for reference.
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