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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Dec 30, 1779
Page
1
The note thanks Desire Gentlemen Clergy and Freeholders of Southampton for their voluntary suffrages and support. J Clarke Jervoise pledges to follow constituents order in Parliament, serve the county's real interests, and maintain confidence, dated Noteport December 28 1779.
Advertises cough and hoarseness lozenges from balsam of tolu by T Greenough at Ludgate Hill London. Claims to ease asthma consumption and sore throat, aid expectoration, not stomach-binding, and notes counterfeits with court damages. Sold also by W Bailey and A Rothwell. box lid inscription specified.
An experienced surgeon, over 15 years in the Surgeons Company, advertises cure for venereal disease from early infection to advanced states. Medicines may be taken without confinement or business interruption. Free advice daily 10 am to 9 pm at Dispensary No 6 West of Golden Square near Piccadilly. Letters from the country are welcomed and medicines can be sent or delivered to patients by appointment.
Letter from William Laurence of Wantage Berkshire praising Merchants Drops by Mr Norton of Golden Square London for curing a long list of disorders said to arise from foul blood. The note touts safety for children and pregnant women, price details, and warnings about counterfeit labeling and improper sale.
Advertisement for Kings Patent Cakes to make Shining Liquid Blacking for shoes and boots. Describes a soft gloss that preserves leather, prevents cracking, and avoids hardening. Sold by W Bayley in Cockspur Street, London with a caution label to prevent counterfeits and ensure genuine products.
Notice describes a large freehold dwelling with barns out-houses yard close and orchard on about four score acres of arable copyhold land beyond St Alban s and about three miles from Hitchin. Let at an old rent of gol per annum. For particulars apply to Mr Bailey 114 Fenchurch Street. Amount listed $675.
A letter from Sam Rowley of Market-court Bow Street Covent Garden commends James Rowley and his British Herb Snuff for curing a persistent nervous headache and restoring vision. The ad notes locations: London Coffee-house Ludgate Hill and perfumers, with packets sold at fifteenpence and sixpence. warnings about counterfeit fakes urge buyers to demand ROWLEY's and observe the name on each packet.
Whitehaven reports that mercantile people in Ireland have stocked the country with unstamped almanacs of their own manufacture. Not fewer than a thousand have been sold in the neighbourhood of the town.
London complains of naval delays while France builds seven 110 gun ships and Royal Sovereign stalls for timber. News from Amsterdam lists Paul Jones squadron with Serapis and Alliance, British seamen freed and paid subsistence, Burke memo on rural ruin, Adams sails to Europe with no peace terms. Bilboa tobacco ships and D Estaing actions, Solebay captures Nostra Sarmento des Deos Anarelleos, Erva wreck off Hotwells, Experiment taken by American privateer, Elizabeth bound for Quebec captured.
Extria of a letter from Chatham reports a French privateer of 16 guns being taken by the Camden and another privateer near Havre de Grace. a Spanish privateer captures the John and Elizabeth bound Lisbon to Neash. indigo and wool brigantine taken by the Greyhound and brought to Lisbon. the Beattie privateer stranded at Hull with crew saved. the Thomas from Newfoundland to the West Indies captured by the French at Grenada. dockyard ships described. local political contest for Common Councilman in Cripplegate likely to be close.
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