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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Dec 29, 1767
Page
4
A 1767 London Evening Post letter appeals to British electors to form an association to uphold an uninfluenced choice of representatives. It argues the public would see the defect in monopolizing game politics, urging independent voters to reject any candidate using sinister means.
A letter from Humanus urges candidates to abandon buying votes and instead pool funds to feed and clothe electors and their families in Colchester Sudbury Norwich Exeter Calne Chippenham Devizes Honiton Tiverton Leominster Gloucestershire Yorkshire and Southwark. Money would also aid debtors lingering in prison. Dated Dec 28 1767 from Guildhall.
London reports discuss the Irish Bill for Sentennial Parliaments and English vs Irish interest. Notices describe Sir William Wheate’s fifteen day road journey, Dowager Marchioness Tweedale’s Bath visit, and a Q and A on religion and ecclesiastical government at Queen’s Arms. A correspondent urges housekeepers to require servants to fling ashes before doors for public hygiene.
Reports from New York say small arms and metal goods are now manufactured there, with numbers comparable to Birmingham Sheffield and other English centers. A Saleem dispatch notes Maley Bore, a corsair commander, arrested at port by order of the Emperor for robbery. his crew imprisoned. Local notices record candle duties, debt-prison policies, a church wedding in Islington, deaths at Lambeth and near Harwich, and a series of accidents and drownings in Hyde Park and surrounding areas. The Pitt cutter seized a French brandy sloop at Cherbourg. other items cover a frozen laborer, a coachman’s death, a coroner’s verdict of accidental death, and a waggon horse incident near Hitchin. The amusement columns list Drury Lane and Covent Garden entertainments including The Plain Dealer, The Elopement, The School for Lovers, and Cymbeline with casts noted.
Weekly report lists diseases with counts: dropsy 13, smallpox 61, consumption 49, fever 777, stillborn 35, convulsions 107, measles 2, teeth 12. Found dead 1, killed by accident 1, overlaid 1, starved 1. Total males 130 christened 5, females 130, total 160. Burials: males 233, females 218, total 441 this week 51. Ditto New An etc with 7-Sths and various shut figures.
A catalog style advertisement listing The Family Gardener’s Victionary and related works. It details volumes on gardening forestry husbandry brewing mining coinage and trades, with 300 plus articles, manners of rural living, and remedies. Printed for Hawes Clarke and Collins at the Red Lion in Paternoster Row.
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