Noble entertainments and naval notices from Middlesex to Plymouth
Yesterday the Earl of Northumberland hosted Middlesex militia officers at Northumberland House and the Earl of Rochfort hosted Essex militia at the Crown and Anchor. Donations to parish charities surpassed 4,000 pounds, while Adm. Pococke thanked the assembly for wartime services. Reports detail ships, sea incidents, promotions, and various court and clerical appointments. A string of deaths and public notices follow, including market news and a capital convicts report.
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Earl of Northumberland
Middlesex
Northumberland House
Earl of Rochfort
St.Giles’s
Esher
Surrey
Sussex
Nottinghamshire
Admiral Pococke
Havannah
St. Joseph
Dieppe
Plymouth
Dewonshire
Paris
Hanover
Sherborn
Lisbon
Falmouth
Smith
Guiney
Bourdeaux
Peacock
Medway
Cowes
Pococke
William Robeson
New Providence
Bahama Islands
Philadelphia
London
Johanna
William Ramsey
Earl of Huntingdon
Henry Pool, Bart
Excise
James Ballard
Golds Preston
Wilts
Salisbury
Swinby
Thoraldby
Leicester
Lincoln
John Wilson
Goth
59Th Regiment of Foot
Col. Owens
Grant
Hugh Dalrymple
Dragoon Guards
Bland
Robert Stair Dalrymple
Tiggophilus Clements
83D Regiment of Foot
69Th Regiment of
5Th Regiment of Foot
Questioning Crown power to revoke life patents in Postscript
In a Postscript to the London Evening Post, PRIPANNICUS considers whether the Crown may revoke life patents or pensions, weighing justice and freedom. He outlines potential hardships for patentees, buyers, and successors, and questions legal consistency of granting for life yet retaining revocation power. The piece asks lawyers to resolve if royal prerogative could undermine subject liberty or property rights.
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Crown
Pripannicus
The London Eve in Post letters on press corruption
A reader letter questions press corruption and the use of bribes to silence critics. The writer cites cases of others silencing dissent with positions and payments, asking whether corrupt practices are hidden and the guilty fear exposure.
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Megesy
Scorfman
Telltruth
Poetic Fragments on Wisdom and Virtue from Cicero Era
Fragmented verse set laments wisdom folly and gendered gaze. The poem contrasts impartial bounty of knowledge with public scrutiny, urging caution and restraint among youth and women. Dated Swirr's Lady's Dressing-Room note adds a 1763 stamp and notes other communications.
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Swirr
Public meeting at university voices German remarks
London extra notes a Petersburgh letter about a university meeting where Professor Kerstens spoke in German. He warned that a state prospers with progress in arts and sciences and that oppression of scholars leads to barbarism. Regent Ariifkow then spoke in Rufian.
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London
Petersburgh
Katherine
Whcn
Kerstens
Ariifkow
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Clunes
Bunbury
86Th Regiment of Foot
Col. Worge
Santes
Robert Pringle
Regiment of Foot
James Walkinshaw Crawfurd
Peregrine Francis Thorne
Lord Warkworth
John Graves
3Rd Regiment of Foot
James Hamilton
Enfyn Crutchfield
John Quaintick
Horse Grenadier Guards
Earl of Effingham
Metcalfe
Goree
Pond
Golden-lane
St. Luke’s
Oldstreet
Miss Forster
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Maximilian Emanuel
Prince
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Holy Roman Empire
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Europe
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Thomas Earl
Ailstury
Charlotta
Sannu
Brabant
Maria Teresa Josepha
Prince of
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George Robinson
Oxford
Barbara Lady
Viscountess de Longueville
Earl of Sussex
Hammersmith
Edmond Rush
Hudson’s Bay Company
Hampton
David Godin
Mincing-lane
Gracechurch-street
John East
Thomas Seares
Barnet
Clerkenwell-green
James Graham
William Warren
Nelson
York
Chelsea
St. George’s Hospital
Uxbridge
Cambray
Rice
Rige
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Hill-Street
Hawkins
Pall-mall
William Moreton
William Quienreith
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John Collins
William ‘Toulin
William Champ
Richard Hutchins
Hans Beg
William Largen
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Simpson
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Thomas Bryant
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