Great public sale of the Cubiart head in dramatic farce
Jurines Mixguer and the audience watch as the great executioner of the Cubiart is bid upon with comic rhetoric. Mercury probes values, mocking ministers while merchants push prices from five shillings to ten thousand pounds for the head. The crowd clamors as the head seeks a buyer, ending with Zachary Cardi pode named agent to the public for ten thousand pounds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mixguer
Whiteha
Mercury
Sfirf
Europe
Spain
Pariament
Sven
Earl of Scafford
Mercury Mercury
Jupiter
Zachary Cardipode
Mirror of Liberty and Court Satire from Hume Extract
A correspondent furnishes an extract from Hume criticizing Stuart influence and royal policy amid the American conflict. The text likens English governance to a theatre of vice, praising William of Orange and liberty while denouncing court hypocrisy. Dated 4uz. 29, 1775.
Hanoverian troops in garrison provoke mischief risk
The Printer of the London Evening Paper notes Hanoverian troops assigned to garrisons at Minorca and Gibraltar may become fractious drinkers. He warns quarrels with inhabitants could lead to large mischief and even aid Spain, threatening the Levant trade. An old Highland maxim urges lenity to kin. GLENBUCKET.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minorca
Gibraltar
Spain
Levant
Britain
Glenbucket
Proclamation against rebellion fuels lively London debate
The letter-filled issue debates the royal Proclamation’s reach, arguing it cannot curb freeholders and citizens from assembling to defend liberties. It cites colonial arms readiness in South Carolina, Jamaica’s war signals, and prominent legal opinions that proclamations are not laws. It notes theater gossip, port arrivals, trade data, and local races amid a general news mix.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Smedmore
Brown
Portsmouth
South Carolina
Gates
Europe
Jamaica
West Indies
Henry the Eighth
Petersburgh
Proclamations and royal will in Sydney's treatise
The quotation discusses Proclamations as potentially temporary instruments, advising they remain under the law and council. It argues that without law, royal directives lack force, and subjects are not obliged to obey unlawful proclamations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hume
Great- Britain
William
Prince of
Orange
Spain
Indies
Europe
Sydney
S&c
Two Apprentices Absent From Mr Swinney's Birmingham Shop
A notice warns William Stafford and William Turner, apprentice printers, absented themselves from duty at Mr Swinney the Birmingham printer. Stafford is described as a genteel youth about eighteen, Turner a thinner youth in year one. The notice cautions employers not to harbor or employ them and promises to acknowledge any reports.
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Chesterfield
Derby
Augus Ag
Sol
Mr. Preston
Sch. Fi
Mr. Duggin
Prafus
Mr. Coates
Adolphus
Lord Iwin
Batsys
Mr. Pratt
Lilach
Mr. Puffman
Mr. Coulson
Speculator
Mr. Garforth
Euryalus
Mr. Smith
Diana
Mr. Cope
Captain Hebden
Perseus
H. Vernon
Jack Ot Néton
Lord Abingdon
L Viachan
Knavelaire
Googe
Berthg
Adamis
Knight Rier-street
Kentish Town
Foundling Hospital
St. James's Church
Sir Brownlow Cuft
Miss Bankes
Henry Bankes
Baron
Leadenhall-street
Liverpool
John Letter
Edward Sheaf
Clare Market
York
4Th Regiment of Dragoons
Carpenter’s
Bridlington
Capt
Z. B
Philo-Regis
Burcoyne
Lax
William Stafford
William Turner
Prentices
Swinney
Birmingham
Thas
Sheraingham
New Editions of Two Former Numbers Offered
Those who desire a correct map of the environs of Boston are asked to request the Remembrancer, Number II. Each edition is priced at one shilling.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boreton
Boston
America
England
J. Almon
Burlington House
Piccadilly
Annual Register 1974 History Politics and Literature
Publication notice for the Annual Register 1974 printed in Pall Mall by J Dodfle. Advertises complete sets or individual volumes available for purchase. Contains archaic spelling and punctuation typical of the era.
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Lucian
Puilosophers
London Evening Pol
London
Lord H
My Lord
Senate
Faihul
Foote
Calais
Boxourabe
Long
London: Evening’ Pott, "Ser
London Evening Post
Postscript
Happy Union
Coats
Plymouth
Friendship
Newell
Chepttow
Biddy
Hunter
Alborough
Haddock
Sea Horse East Indiaman
Arthur
Bengal
Hall
St. Kitts
Dover
Sally
Ruffel
Bristol
Philadelphia
Maryland
New York
Ireland
Wilson
Davis’s Straits
Greenland
Addison
Banks
Speedwell
Steward
Elk
Ridley
Whitby
Hilton
James St. Quintin
Barry
Crow-street Theatre
Dublin
Covent-Garden
Hort
Miss Pope
Drury-Lene
India
South Sea
Consol
Tawa
Ditto India
Taata
Navy
Dif
Tony Anevwie
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