The Poor Plead for Lord Essex Medicine Amid Trade Shock
A London Evening Post fragment reports widespread distress over rising prices, crashing trade, and farmers suffering while Engraiers and Forestallers profit. It notes Lord Essex's medicine as a proposed remedy and pleads for doctors to be empowered to prescribe it, lest the poor starve. It also includes a Calcutta anecdote of a widow burning herself with her late husband, illustrating moral and social distress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
Francis Wronghead
Sir Francis
Wrongheads
Francis
Probus
Yorkshire
London
Sir Francis and Company
Andrew Foresight
P.S
Hitchin
Lord Essex
Bury St. Edmund's
Bob Short
John Keteh
Baily
A&t
Private actions feared by Europeans in this region
Amelia notes that such instances occur as often as before, done privately to avoid interruption by Europeans, especially the English, whose power and influence are now strong in this part of the world.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amelia
Police of Paris Compared with London Traditions
A writer to the London Evening Post extols Paris policing steps and urges London to adopt them. He notes that newcomers in Paris must reveal name, occupation, and origin to landlords who log details for the quarter and inform the commissary, aiding security and exposing fraud. He contrasts London’s lax lodging checks and warns of unmonitored strangers potentially harboring highwaymen. He also praises Paris war time passes signed by the Governor to prevent spies and enemy plots, arguing such passes would curb disaffected communication with enemies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Meres
Paris
London
Police
Ode on the Months and Years Roll On
An extract from London Evening-Post by J Oakman laments mortality and the inevitability of death. It contrasts the Prince, Peasant, and Slave as all ending alike in the grave, noting how loved ones and wealth cannot spare one from the final journey.
Distemper and Indignation Stir in City Society
An exaggerated note mocks a recognized medical quirk as a plausible excuse for absence. An Irish noblewoman is said to be smuggled into the city and faces immediate transport for alleged indecency toward Britannia, while patriots lament cruel judges and a satirical Oxonian inflames sympathies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Britannia
Auction in West End Town Prompts Private Treaty Offer
At a London auction, a gentleman proposed disposing of a borough by private sale after a genteel gathering of merchants and tradesmen. The auctioneer appeared hesitant, and the proposer set terms of 39501, suggesting a private deal as a substitute for public bidding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Vast array of notices from a colonial era paper shows purses of theft and governance
The issue reports beggars swept from city chapels, public reprimands for sharpers and engrossing, naval dispatches, new cutters launched at Chatham, debates on dancing and church music, a bank plan in Corsica, and a Jamaica death, with ground details on markets, robberies, and elections in Hull and Beverley.
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St. James’s
Earl of Shelburne
Hill-Street
Berkeley Square
Earl of Pomfret
Kingstreet
St. James's
Ealton- Nelton
Northamptonshire
George Warren
Knight of the Bath
Albemarle Street
Cheshire
Admiralty Office
Portsmouth
Plymouth
Corsica
Paoli
Chatham
Queen’s Arms
Newgate-street
India
Savanna la Mar
Jamaica
Samuel Ireland
Jones
Excise Office
Newgate Market
Maidstone
Westminster
Worcester
New
Sth
Edward the
John Eades
York
Liverpool
Ireland
Hull
Beverley
Stephen Johnson
Gate-Helmsley
Dunnington
Deal
St. George
Foot
America
Hunter
Kennedy
Lisbon
Earl of Chatham
Auther
Dublin
King George
Carolina
The Recruiting Officer and The Stratagem on Drury Lane and Covent Garden
Theatre listings show DRURY-LANE and COVENT-GARDEN programs with The Recruiting Officer, The Stratagem, Haré Jequin's Invasion, The Devil to Ray, The Roman Father, The Wonder, The Dragon of Wantley, and performances at London Bridge with specified showings and times. Cast lists include Captain Plume Melinda Miss Reynolds Mrs Dancer and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Drury-Lane
Captain Plume
Mr. Palmer
Captain Brazen
Mr. King
Melinda
Reddisht
Rose
Miss Reynolds
Sylvia
Dancer
Haré Jequin
Archer
Garrick
Aimwell
Palmer
Scrub
Mrs Welton
Dorinda
Reddish
Sullen
Devil
Ray
Prices of Bank Stocks and Bonds in India Exchang Bills
A historical list shows bank stock prices and bonds with fractions in deltas such as 1-half 1-4th, 3-8ths, and 4 per cent. Entries include Old Ann, New Ann, India An, De.Navy, India Bonds, Navy & Vidt. B., and Exch. Bills Long Ann with varying discounts and percentages. The page reflects a market snapshot style with multiple securities and their quoted fractions and percentages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
S O Bank
India
South Sea
Ct. Bk. Ann
Navy
Navy & Vidt
Exch
Long Ann
Amsterdam and Cadiz Market Rates and Coin Prices
A fragment lists course rates for Amsterdam Rotterdam and Cadiz with dates in May and August, plus prices for silver coin, pillar bars, and Mexico coin. It mentions payables in pence, shillings, and ounces, with notes on half and quarter units and various city references. The legible items focus on exchange values, metal prices, and bulk coin measurements rather than a cohesive narrative.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mexico
Christenied Diseases and Casualties This Week
Weekly report lists diseases including smallpox measles fever and other ailments with counts such as aged dropsy consumption and convulsions. Casualties show self harm and injuries with male and female deaths totaling hundreds and burials rising by 57 this week.
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London Evening Post
Meres
Calcutta
Brips
Ganges
The
London Evening-Post
J. Oakman
London Bridge
Arglin
Amsterdam
Rotterdam
Paus
Bourdeaux
Cadiz
Change
Madrid
Bilboa
Leghorn
Non
Venice
Porto
Christenied
Bear-Key
Wiiluy
Wheaten
Whitechapel
Mr. Wetenhall
Wilkes
L. Hawes
W. Clarke
R. Colling
Paternofter Row
Royal Exchange
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