Fragmentary notice of names and places in London area
Brief OCR fragment lists names and places in the Portsea, Chichester, and Lincoln's Inn Fields area. Mentions Joseph Pickering at Queen Street and Alban Street locations. Reads as a partial notice with scattered street references and affiliations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eters Wright
Ae Perla
Portsaouth
Chichester
Ie Pc
Fok
Joseph Pickering
Queen'teet
Lincoln's-inn-fields
Alban’ S-Street
Sermons on Various Subjects by John Farquhar
A note announces the second edition of Farquhar's Sermons on Various Subjects in two volumes bound, printed for T. Cadell in the Strand. Editors Campbell and Geaie laud the preacher’s taste, imagination, and sensibility, as echoed by the Monthly Review in August 1772.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Farquhar
George Campbell
Mathchal College
Alexander Geaie DD
King’s College
Aberen
T. Cade
Strand
Monthly Review
Goldsmiths Roman History abridged for youth edition
An antiquated notice announces Dr Goldsmiths Roman History abridged as an educational gift for youths. It notes schoolmasters’ allowance, lists publishers and shops in York Street Russell Street Holborn and Fleet Street, and advertises two octavo volumes priced at 12 shillings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. Goldsmith
Wisghl
S. Baker
G. Leigh
York-street
T. Davies
Ruffel-street
L. Davis
Holborn
Owen
Fleet-streec
Goldsmith
Rome
Western Empire
Oftavo
Cross Purposes at Covent Garden A Farce Review
At Covent Garden on Saturday evening a new farce titled Cross Purposes, attributed to Mr. Obrien, was staged with Captain Bevil and Miss Grud central to a tale of dissipation, marriage schemes, and social satire. The cast impressed, though two leads lacked full polish, and the piece ends with a moral prompt about extravagant fashion and marital happiness, drawing on the Trois Freres Rivoux.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Covent Garden
Obrien
Giryd
Mr. Bevil
Capt. Bevil
Alc
Grab
Becante
Parliament House
Letter on Sir John Hu and party intrigues in Parliament
A London Evening Post fragment accuses Sir John Hu of secret treaties with the Minister and opposes his countrymen’s liberty. It laments jealousy over his patriotism, warns that entangled loyalties may endanger his influence, and hints at a near hostile county nomination driven by factional pressure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Foho
John St. Aubyn
Bedmyn
Ronger
Spee Fonticoats
John
Beara
Plague Abates in Moldavia and Podolia News from European Ports
Letters from Moldavia Podolia and the Ukraine report the plague has ceased in those regions. In Thorn area near Fordan Prussians buy timber to build a town and impose heavy duties on trade between Dantzig and Poland. Money is restricted in Elbing. only port conveyance allowed with a fee. Danish animal exports to Sweden banned. farmers to ship surplus to royal magazines. Danes must ready crews by January end. Paris reports intensified libel hunts with one monk found in possession and sent to the Bastile.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Warsaw
Moldavia
Podolia
Ukraine
Brem
Visigia
Fordan
Thorn
Dantzig
Poland
Elbing
Wien
Hamburgh
Elfineur
Sweden
Malmoe
Paris
Widespread Caribbean Disaster Reports From Tortola to Nevis
A dated letter from Tortola to a Liverpool merchant details extensive Caribbean losses as storms devastate Antigua St Kitts Nevis and surrounding islands. It cites ships wrecked lives lost ruined planters and merchants driven to poverty with further shipping perils and public notices from Dublin to London.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tortola
Liverpool
Antigi 14
St. Kit’s
Nevis
Montferrat
Kultatia
S. Groix
St. John’s
St. Thomas’s
West-Indies
Elindia
Antigua
Kit’s
John
Elizabeth
Adams
Exeter
Hambro
Jutland
Smith
Rotterdam
Waterford
Limerick
W.-By-N
London
Dublin
Halle
Atwour Academy
Intelligence from ROCHESTER on tar and pitch factory
Reported by the Navy Board influence of a tar and pitch manufacture under Baton van Haak seeks royal patent. The article claims this mineral tar prevents wood rot and was tested on a ship’s hull at Sheerness, with endorsements from officials and prices offered by various parties. It mentions waterworks and certificates of experience, asserting superior properties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baton van Haak
Navy ‘Board
Sheemers
Abinirakey
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Ee Balke
É Aoe
Kamieton
Robin
Suriojiie
Mos
Guander
Chapeax
Rodiz
Beail
Grad
Tax
Consol
East
India
Lins
Bevil
Thompson
Erry
Wroughton
Sitizen
Fers Ork
Quick
Notin
Beil
Lewes
Dyer
London Evening Pott
Jolly M——r Hu
Weterday
Holland
Welmin Flery
De.Grey
Society of Clement’s
Iaw
Clement Dantes
Jan i Ras
Chen
Wathout
D. Wilmot
Ely
Peter Carney
Onte Pickin
Mary
Greenwich
Cab- Fao Geers
Cpm
Thad
Yyach
Maidstone
Afizes
Guildhall
Pan
Cotn-Exchange
Bristol
Robert Willoughby
Rosamound
Brice
Bruce
Mr. Hobdell
Silver-street
Sally Aston
Wilkinson
Coleman- Street
Miss Obert
Obert
Boulogne
James Bailey
Carringwn-street
May Fair
Mills Maria Williams
Shepherd-street
Rifley
Derbyshire
Bettinson
Swark~ Fton
Free Grammar School
United Chapelries
Breafton
Staplesford
Nottinghamshird
the Hague
Jonas Appleyad
Jos. Yorke
Lyons
Pleetlane
Fulham
Nicolas Kenworth
Hammersmith
Pho
Warkman
High Sherif
Gloucestershire
Bishop Gate-Street
Hugh Reily
Robert Gargrave
St. Catharine’s
Newmao-figet
Theophilus Loxam
Stetl
Law
Guilford
Herman Meyer
Christian Meyer
Mincinglane
Merchants,and Partners
Robert Dewby
Coldbath Fields
Cornchandler
M. Carlos
Drury-lane
John Hailstone
Witham
Efsix
Ralph Glover
St. George
Middiefex
xJames Fraser
Mariner
Lewis Mendes
Merch
John Kempster
Edge Ware
Carrier
Higler
Christopher Qwfton
North Shields
Northumberland
Hipwright
Newcastle Upon Tyne
John Cannot
Dover
Rochester
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