Fragmented 18th Century Economic Notes and Local Notices
The column reports varied items: Bank payments on government annuities, anticipated regulations for foundling children, a large quarry labor force in Scotland for city paving, and adjustments to street lamps in Fleet Street. It also covers charitable donations in Finchley, clerical appointments, marriages and deaths, ship losses near Yarmouth, a burglary in Whitechapel, and notices about East India Company praise for Colonel Coote, Florida settlement schemes, and a Darien earthquake.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yeterday
Scoland
Fleetstreet
Temple
Bar
Whitechapel
Finchley
Thomas Harris
Henry Dodwell
Trinity College
Oxford
Earl of Darnley
Beighton
Worth
Collersworth
Harlaxston
Lincoln
Samuel Wharton
Bovings
Northampton
Diocese of
Peterborough
Wiltiard Hudson
Fine Guards
Edward Broderick
Willian ‘Hudson
John Collins
Charles Bourchies
Madrats
East-India Company
Fort S
George
Samuel Corgingtan
Letherhead
Surry
Camberwell Church
Jenny Wilkinson
David Freer
Grosvenor-Square
Eage Megat
Hyde-street
Bloomsbury
Joseph Collinson
Stretton Grounds
Westminster
Frazis Beale
Mortimer-street
Elizabeth Spackman
North
Audrey-street
Chertsey
John Millett
Frith
Southwark
Nathaniel Barchard
Watlingstreet
Fanthaw
Holbourn
Cater
George Pitt
Curzon-street
Earl Bute
Duke of Devonshire
Hopewell
Collins
Rotterdam
Stockton
York
Bainstair
Narva
Bondor
Hartlepoole
Tull
Carmarthen
Sandwich
Wales
Hull
Cadiz
Yarmouth
Day
Church
Lane
Qneans
Goold
Samuel Burroughs
Rosemary
Stoyp
Ahe East India Company
Coote
India
Lord Clive
Barnstable
Devonshire
Dennis Rolle
St. John
Florida
Paris
Hispaniola
Glasgow
New Providence
Darien
North America
Paisley
Newcastle
Isenes
Luxury and Corruption in British politics debate
A rambling letter to the London Evening Post criticizes luxury and corruption as the ruin of empires and asks if any reform occurs. It laments leaders chasing private interest and failing to defend the public good, doubting amendment is possible. A second note mocks an impertinent conversation at a Porch House, describing a loud talker and his verbose, rambling speech.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paldwin's
Journal
Ganyeemwaws
Joseph Wessels
John Ravenscroft
Walker
Trerely
Wessels
Warkker
Tunguam de Republica
London Evening Post
Mr. Merges
Gentlerman
S. Posfessed
Chefe
Aid
Jack
Locke
Stiragh
Public morals and politics weave through a London letter
The London Evening Post notes prisons overcrowded with unhappy detainees lacking public worship, Duke of Bedford arrives in Bloomsbury on important business, Monterose and Lord Gordon depart for country seats, wagers on political futures surface, and election results unfold in Lincolnshire. Reports from Warsaw and Lisbon discuss nobility honors, marriage promise laws, and clerical power in confinement cases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Duke of Bedford
Wooburn Abbey
Bedfordshire
Bloomsbury Square
Duke of Montrose
Upper Grosvenor Street
Grage
William Gordon
St. James's
Earl of Bristok
Teéland
Boston
Lincolnshire
John Mitchell
Charles Amcots
Eig
Warsaw
Qth
Grabowski
Stas Rot
Cafchau
Russia
Order of St. Anne
Lisbon
Constant Reader Calls for Reform of Confined Individuals
A letter to the editor pleads for rebrefs and immediate remedies for those confined, urging regard for the eternal welfare of the imprisoned and asking authorities to take action without delay.
Christmas Boxing and Servant Misuse Dialogue
A fragmentary verse and dialogue piece depicts Christmas boxing as a cause of servant drunkenness and mischief. First and Second Citizens debate keeping holy days while lamenting servants returning drunk and begging for boxes, exposing social critique of holiday charity and labor.
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Monthly Review
T. Becket
Strand
N. B
Baldwin
Mansion House
London
Krew
Vinae
London Evening- Post