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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Aug 31, 1771
Page
1
From Breslau dated Aug 12 reports say the Empress has sent a courier to Berlin to inform the Prussian king that seven of the preliminary articles from the Porte have been rejected and that she will not agree to any cessation of arms during the negotiations.
A plan to regulate staple prices is to be set by a committee to meet weekly at Guildhall. Reports mention slave ships, losses at sea, and ships from Liverpool and Greenland. An invention for finding longitude is noted, along with a Moorfields housing scheme and Portsmouth Dockyard fire inquiries. A Bristol hot wells altercation and a Scotch masons’ feast are also referenced.
A crowded notice set reports promotions in the Army and naval commands, marriages of Edward Percival and Samuel Toovey, plus multiple deaths and obituaries from the period. It also covers Edinburgh money finds, ship arrivals, and a lengthy critique of canal company powers, land rights, and proposed routes, urging parliamentary oversight to curb monopolistic practices.
Critics charge the Birmingham Canal Company with overreaching powers. they accuse the firm of extending the canal six miles beyond plan, altering its route across long stretches, taxing the public to fund changes, and abandoning coal mines along the line, all while shares drop and Parliament faces calls to reveal true objectives.
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