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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Dec 11, 1788
Page
3
An old market notice describes a wide array of goods and wares for sale including foods like bacon beef butter cheese oats and peas. household items such as soap mops bricks and paper. fabrics threads silks and laces. tools and hardware. and various toys and household accessories with prices noted as cheap.
The House examined physicians including Dr Warren Sir George Baker Rev Dr Willis and others on royal illness. They reported most recovered with no precise recovery date and declined fever as cause. A committee was appointed to search for precedent and adjourned the session to Friday.
Postscript notes December 10 at four in the morning reporting His Majesty’s quiet night and unchanged condition from the previous day. An accompanying James's Express dispatch from Motrine dated December 1 repeats the four hours sleep last night and the unchanged state, signed by Warren and B. Gave to the Lord in waiting at St James's.
The decided opinion of the faculty favors fewer New Year Ode mentions as Majesty’s tribute is dispensed with. Thames navigation is unusually low for the season, affecting Wet country barges and bread prices due to harvest abundance and flour exports by foreign agents. Discontent grows in Mark-lase as laws lack power to curb such transactions.
A letter from a Gentleman educated at Oxford describes Dr Willis a clergyman and lecturer at St John's Warping who was supported by Brazen Note College. He pursued medicine after theology, faced threats from local physicians over prescriptions, earned a bachelor’s degree, acquired a living in Lincolnshire, and gained noted success treating maniacs.
The article notes ongoing shifts among the major powers. Prussia presses for action while Austria and Turkey maneuver on winter quarters. Poland faces intensified tensions as uprisings and diplomacy threaten broader conflict, with Sweden and Denmark watching developments and Holland debating Orange allegiance.
The new Administration's paper arrangement pleases clubs west of Temple Bar especially Sr James street house. On Tuesday afternoon Dr Saigley Bishop of St Asaph died at his house in Baton Row Piccadily.
A circulated tale claimed Mrs Mackenzie died in Wardour Street to harm her. the report is denied and she is reported in good health and prepared to carry out her usual duties.
Stock and bond entries appear with rates and percentages for various issues. References include Bank Stock, Consul, India Stock, South Sea Stock, New Ditto, Navy Lottery, and annuities. Entries note percentages per cent, dates, and small monetary figures, with items such as Exchange Bills and old and new securities.
On December 3 1788 the Navy Office announces a treaty meeting on Wednesday to discuss supplying His Majestys Yards in England Antigua Jamaica and Halifax with Quebec white pine masts yards and bowprits. Bidders must attend by twelve. details posted in the lobby.
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