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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Aug 26, 1786
Page
1
Correspondence between Mr Palmer and a clerk in London discusses proposed changes to the General Post Office hours and delivery patterns. Letters urge earlier dispatch from London to improve nationwide mail service and address metropolitan and rural needs.
The piece describes Margaret Lamburie, a Scottish retinue member for Mary Queen of Scots, plotting to kill Queen Elizabeth to avenge her mistress and husband. She disguises herself, visits the royal garden, drops a pistol, is seized, and confesses she sought vengeance for both royal mistresses. The queen questions her, and Lamburie explains her motive and loyalty.
Margaret petitions the Queen for leniency and safe exit. The Queen forwards a full conditional pardon against the President’s advice. Elizabeth grants mercy and a safe conduit out of the kingdom, allowing Margaret to leave for the French coast.
The sale on the thirtieth of August offers thirty handsomely bearing orange and lemon trees and two large bulbs, from the late James W. Nimitchurch. Items include household furniture and a marble slab, all to be auctioned at York Mouse Twickenham Middlesex with sale of trees on the preceding days.
Advertisement warns of counterfeit Hooper's Female Pills sold across the kingdom. It notes a government stamp on each box proving genuine products from Thomas Dicey Co and Francis Newbery at designated London warehouses. The notice urges buyers to observe the engraved name on the stamp and mentions prices for retail and wholesale, with the Stamp Office approval.
An advertisement touts Dalmatioy’s Antiscorbution Essence as a safe mercury-free remedy for scrofula, leprosy, cancer, and blood impurities. It claims mild alterative action suitable for delicate persons and children, with added peppermint essence for digestive complaints. Also notes a London price of 4s a battle.
An aged Royal Patent notice claims Robert Grubb of St Martin in London developed Friars Drops a cure for venereal disease with mercurial pills avoided. It touts rapid cure using bottles sold at Old Bailey and via various London sellers including Tower Hill Oxford Street and Southwark addresses.
Reports describe Miss Herschel's discovered comet near Slough with precise celestial position. The text also covers a Perigord marriage at La Roque with nobles and banquet, plus a memorial notice of Mr Beaujou, the King's banker, famed for charity and lavish living.
Letters dated July 20 report the plague spreading across the Barbary coast from Bune to Algiers with about 100 deaths daily. It notes 244,090 perished at least and 80,000 displaced, as contagion reaches Tripoli and Tunis, traced to a French vessel from Alexandria carrying infected people. The account cites mistrust of local physicians and confirms contagion in Tunis.
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