Longitude at Sea and Precision of Timekeepers Stance
The writer argues that lunar and solar positions are unreliable for determining longitude at sea, criticizing reliance on eclipses and moon motion. He endorses Locke's timekeeping method and log line with a half minute glass, urging scrutiny by the Longitude Commissioners to prevent fraud and insist on fair evaluation of innovations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
Penylvania
London
Jupiter
Holly Afefers
Locke
Mr. Locke
Harrison
Candid Queries on Lunar Tables Reward and Publication
In a Palladium period piece the author questions the government reward for Mayer’s Lunar Tables, the publication of those tables for mathematicians, and the handling of Afroximical observations paid from public funds. The note cites a paper from Saturday Aug 17 and corrects typographical errors affecting Euler and Alliting Theorems.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Mayer
Gottingen
Aayer
Greenwich
Roya Seciety
Lift of Ins and Outs in the Daily Papers
A satirical note on the Lift of Ins and Outs across papers. The piece mocks reform pamphleteering and party loyalty, witfully lampooning Foot at Haysmarket and Whitefield at Tottenham Court, urging readers to see politics as a farce. It ends with a quip about “Pox on both your Houses.”
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Loondon-Evening Post
Foot
Haysmarket
Whitefield
Tottenham Court
Doctrine of Anti-Scrams and the Watchful Doctor
The fragment satirizes timeless social hypocrisy over taxes, labor disputes, and moral double standards. It mocks critics endorsing deceitful schemes to enrich estates while condemning public amusements and vice. The piece sounds like a polemic lampooning hypocritical views from a satirical chorus.
An Angry Epistle on Horse Racing and Public Image
An 18th century satirical verse condemns horse racing as folly and social disgrace. The writer invokes figures like Cumberland and Rockingham and cites Anti-Sepanus and a "cool Doctor" to argue racing corrupts virtue and public regard. He warns nobles and gentlemen to avoid racing to preserve honor and character.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cumberland
Gearton
Rock Ingham
London Evening Post appeals for continued support
The paper thanks the public for encouragement from all ranks and promises to keep costs low while remaining useful and entertaining. Readers are asked to send orders to news carriers or the printer, with corrections rejected, and advertisements and notices accepted at Mr. Aton’s in Piccadilly for the West End audience.
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London Evening
Aton
Burlington House
Piccadilly
Flanders Letters Report War News and Local Accidents
Mail from Flanders and Cadiz notes prisoners from Larache to Morocco and the King’s protection of French settlers, with corsair activity near Mogador. Other items include Venice and Venice papal affairs, Baltic and Polish notices, American frontier plans, ship arrivals, trade data, and various urban mishaps such as a youth’s suicide, a lamplighter injury, and a river death.
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Flanders
Cadiz
Etters
Gibraltar
Larrache
Morocco
Saffy
Mogador
Corfou
Holy See
Republic of Venice
Savi
Cajetan-Croix
Sardinia
Venice
Tipo
Doge
College of Commerce
Warsaw
Noblesse of
Courland
Duke Bien
Stockholm
d’Eckebladt
Baron de Schaffer
Pitt to Remain Longer in Somerfershire Reportedly
London reports Mr. Pitt is expected to linger in Somerfershire beyond initial plans as St Jaimes’s hosts the Queen’s candle ceremony. The resort now welcomes a wide range of ranks with all who are tolerably prepared invited to participate.
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London
Pitt
Somerfershire
St. Jaimes’s
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Antigua
Mr. Meres
Newmarket
York, Tyne
Larry Grogan
Rother Harry
Lara
Ireland
Anti-Sejanus
Dottor B
Arti-Sejanus
Calhel Boistier
Pensylvania
Peter-street
Bloomsbury
Wapping
Davy
Jow Water
Isle of Dogs
Ratcliff Cross
Lords of the Admiralty
St. Antonio
Plymouth
Italy
Oporto
Hamburgh
Nelly, Brown
Mary
Jane
Chapman
William, Richardson
Diam
Shield Deal
Wind S. W
Vmbers
Stck
India
South Sea
Dicto Old An
Divs NewsAon
Auy Abeths
Pines
Ietto
Dicto
Ditto Inc
Ystuucrk Ds. Ditto
Navy
Dicco
Son
Fontine &G
Westminster Hall
Charles Hales
Savoy
General Carr
Field Marslhial
Viscount Ligonier
J. Almon
Burlington Heart
J. Williams
Mitre Tavern
Fleet-Street
Court of Common Pleas
Westminster
Middlesex
Parliament Street
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