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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Dec 19, 1765
Page
3
Efq. John Wakefield was chosen an Alderman of the city at the Guildhall last Friday in the vacancy caused by the death of Alderman Tay Jor. The event reflects the amiable and accomplished standing of Wakefield within the community.
London diary notes adjournment to January 14. Writs issued for Batt-Grimstead Hythe and Huntingdon vacancy. Lord Charles Greville Montagu named Governor of South Carolina. Debates in Dublin rise over pensions and a vice-treasurer appointment. Royal entertainments. a gold box for the Prince of Brunswick features classical allegory. Ship arrivals, robberies, and local incidents fill the page with society, commerce, and crime items.
A fragment from The Dreamer postscripts a London Evening Papers letter about a crowded inn in an English city. Squire Silversmith’s boisterous reception draws laughter as friends toast him while a punch spill soaks his shoes, illustrating a lively election-time scene with amidship chaos and public banter.
An archaic letter thanks Dan a Amer for a humorous critique on party disputes and dreamers. It rails at English pride, urges abandoning polemics, and laments the spread of fantastical lore from childhood to adulthood, citing ghosts, hobgoblins and learned debates about visions and peetres.
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