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Newspaper

London Evening Post

Location

London, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Date

Aug 29, 1771

Page

3

Foreign dispatches and notable deaths from Europe

Mail from France reports a Ragusa demand for 250000 ducats and a threatened bombardment if refused. Russian ships near Smyrna fail to enter, fortify islands in the Archipelago, Paros and Naxos. Dresden notes troop reductions leaving 20000. Lisbox records the death of Duchess d Aveyro. Paris obituary for Schoepfli n a noted historian and royal scholar aged 70.

France Venice Ragusa Vienna Republic Count Oslow Senate Republic of Ragusa Trieste Levant Smyrna Paros Naxos Dresden Lisbox d’Aveyro Rato Paris John Daniel Schoepfiin Royal Academy of Inscriptions and Belles Lettres Royal Society London Cortona Petersbourgh Manheim Strasbourg

London Letter From Berwick On Royal Events And Dockyard Talks

Extra of a letter from Berwick describes a grand ball at Alnwick Castle for the Duke of Cumberland in honor of the Duke of Cumberland with many Scotch nobles present. It notes a fire at Portsmouth Dockyard investigation and potential confrontations, plus city governance actions on market cattle, naval pay proposals, and Greenland whaling results.

London Berwick Duke of Worthumberland Duke of Cumberland Alnwick Castle Alnwick Portsmouth Dudley Roffeter John Ellis Broad-street Wilkes Hatfield Earl of Salisbury Luton Hoo Lord Bute Ark Smithfield-market Gates Green-Yard Count de Guines Earl of Suffolk Earl of Harcourt France Paris St. James’s Excise Broadstreet Greenland Great Britain Hamburgh Altona Bremen His Majesty Palliser Navy

Wheble's Lady's Magazine Promises Taste and Style

An 18th century advertisement extols Wheble's Lady's Magazine as a source of refined taste, instruction, wit, and amusement. It promises guidance on elegant dressing, tambour work, lawn patterns, moral tales, graceful writing, and new songs, verses, and intelligence, all in monthly issues. It positions the publication as superior to modern works for refined reading.

Wheble Lady’s Magazine Lady's Magazine

Hart India Company's fortunes in India and home

An extract from a Vansittart letter reports improved Coromandel revenue and peace in Circar under Dupre, noting Nabob debt repayment, bond settlements, and tripled investments. It adds confidence in neutrality with the Marattas, plus a projected treasury balance of 220,0001 and cargo value estimates across ships arriving in year, with large inventories and pending failures, to be detailed later.

RTN Hart India Company Vansittart India Coromandel Nabob Heyder Dupre Talso Tere China L. P

Reflections on marriage virtue in degenerate times

A critique of gender folly and marital motives in a fin de siècle city. It rebukes mercenary unions, egoistic flirtations, and public dissipations that erode trust. The author urges mutual esteem and fidelity, warning that self-serving gallantry destroys homes and happiness. LREONORA.

Lottery promoters claim superiority of their numbers

A London notice from Messrs Richardson and Goodluck asserts the previous year’s lottery calculation proved more prizes, invites public proof at their Cornhill office, promises tickets and shares from half to sixty fourth, and notes drawing begins November 18 at the Mansion House and offices around Whitehall Cornhill and Thread needle Street.

Richardson Goodluck Cornhill Meff Molesworth Admiralty Whitehall Sun Fire Office Royal Exchange Cornhil Threadneedle-street Mansion House

New Spelling Dictionary and English Grammar A Lifework

An advertisement listing educational books for schools and private tutors. Notable items include Entick’s New Spelling Dictionary, a French English dictionary by Nugent, a new spelling book, a Greek and Latin English dictionary, an Easy Introduction to Lowth’s English Grammar, and Lange’s Latin Conversations. Also promoted are histories and moral works for youth, with prices and publishers in London and Edinburgh.

Stirling London England Wales John Entick Thomas Nugent L. L.D J.hn Entick A.M Tho Stackhouse A. M Lowth Mc. A Lange Stretch Edward Charles Dilly Poultry Kincaid and Creech Edinburgh

To Mr Norton Surgeon in Golden-Square London

A fragmentary notice addressed to Mr Norton, a surgeon in Golden-Square London. No further readable details or dates available.

Mr. Norton Golden-square London

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