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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Dec 12, 1767
Page
4
A terse note describes a scene where curiosity drew a crowd and bears danced, but the measure of proof faded as the crowd grew too large to permit full display. The writer signs as Your constant Reader, Timothy Pravel.
In a letter to the Printer of the London Evening Post the writer CRITO compares Paris and London on civil economy and beggar suppression. He argues Paris confines Mendicants in Bicetre and Bethinks London should imitate this to eradicate the nuisance of beggars in the streets.
An audable resolution by a theatrical author and manager pledges to stage no pieces unless his choice surpasses all others offered. The move aims to quiet critics among authors who complain managers starve them.
Mail from Holland reports end of eight day conferences at the Bishop of Cajavia and resumption at Prince de Repnin's Palace. Polish Prussia towns reduce workload after 1724 losses. Thorn demands removal of a monument to a 1724 execution and inscription erasure. The Dissidents and the Ununited gain church, temples, and schools under kingly leave, with rights to bells, organs, baptism, marriage, and burial per their rites, without molestation. Warsaw reports peasants executed for massacring Russian officers. dispatches lost and sought by Prince Repnin.
In Cracow and Warsaw reports discuss a Nascent Diet commission with the Russian envoy, amid rumors of a Sovereign College to balance royal power and nation liberty. Bishop Koninski has a Polish tract on Greek rights, officer salaries read 15 000 pelith flo tins, and dissidents’ civil-employment prospects remain unsettled. Mortality in Scania cattle declines. Cardinal Ferroni dies in Rome leaving a vacant hat in the Sacred College.
London society reports last night at Drury Lane the first season performance of Stratagem with a Peep behind the Curtain. Dorchester guests include the Duke of Bedford and others. the Dutchess of Beaufort has borne a son. A cabinet maker claims two cannon inventions, one dispersing 50 balls and another discharging multiple times per minute. Parliament, Irish saltpetre growth, and shipping sales in the Thames feature among market and political notes with local price shifts and crime reports. Elizabeth Payne dies at her father’s house. a poor journeyman haberdasher named Michaelson dies leaving 1500. A drowning in a pond near Gray’s Inn Lane and a street robbery on Tower Hill are noted.
A ruinous house in Field Lane fell Sunday but remained uninhabited and caused no injuries. Yesterday two boys engaged near Mr. Axford's shop were crushed by a passing cart breaking a hogshead and injuring one boy who was sent to hospital. A report mentions a captain evading forgery charges and indemnifying his wife. At Deal on December 14 ships including the Downs fleet, Barbares, and Jamaica-bound vessels were noted with wind S W. Theatres show Sifare at Hay-market, The Stratagem at Drury Lane, Venice Preserved at Drury Lane, and Royal Merchant performances at Covent Garden.
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