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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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New Spelling Dictionary and English Grammar A Lifework
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To Mr Norton Surgeon in Golden-Square London
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