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Newspaper

London Evening Post

Location

London, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Date

Dec 25, 1766

Page

3

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.

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.

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.

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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