Waggon design and trials in 1760s England
A Berwick upon Tweed reader reports experiments with a broad wheel waggon drawn by six to eight horses. Trials at Blenheim Park and on roads near Buckingham show the new design performs with similar power to broad-wheel wagons, promising easier travel and potential for costly turnpike relief.
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Hugh
London Chronicle
Blenheim Park
Brackly
Buckingham
Streath
London
Berwick Borough Election Contention Cited in Letter
The writer rebuts a Public Advertiser claim about Burgesses under government instruction to vote for Sir J. H. D. He cites a Berwick incident where Mr. F and others allegedly urged compliant votes, defending the integrity of voters against ministerial pressure and asserting opposition to coercive injunctions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thei Iship
Berwick
Vv O
Cr. &c
Chatham-yard
Vaughan
Thomas M
Berwick Burgelles
Frinter
Crown and Rolls Tavern
Chancery-lane
Berwick Upon Tweed
London Evening- Post
Painter
Herwick
Perwick
F Tle
London
Bewick
J. H. Dim
Wattis
Powell
Royil Exchange
Ex officio Innuund and the King’s Prayers Libel Trap
A fragment argues against an ex officio Innund and a punning phrase Mirthful yet ominous in the legal realm. The text critiques how an attorney can weaponize a single word to accuse, constrain, and threaten a writer, twisting biblical and royal language into grounds for treason. It laments arbitrary censorious power and the perils of legal overreach.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bell
John
Cipriani
A. Millar
H. Woodful
J. Whiston
B. White
J. Rivington
le Davis
de Reymers
J. Baldwin
Dawes
Clarke and Colts
W. Johnston
WW. Owen
5. Crowder
FT. Longman
B. Law
C. Rivineton
Beilly
R. Withy
Candle Ware
5. Baker
J. Payne
A. Struckbuch
M. Richardson
Dr. Hill
Janes S Street
Bowie
Calis
Peace talks and fleet news from London and Jamaica
London reports a British king’s envoy aims at peace with Warsaw and Dantzik, while plans unfold to empower Prince Eugene in the duchy of Württemberg. Rates rise for Irish meat, a Highland regiment sails East Indies, and naval and commercial moves flood in from Jamaica to New York and Amsterdam.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Poland
Warsaw
Dantzick
Ratisbon
Duke of Wurtemberg
Eugene
Earl of Northumberland
Ireland
Yetterday
St. Alban’s
Dunstable
Marthe Dickenson
Queenhithe Ward
Brackley
Northamponshire
England
Minorca
East Indies
Paris
Ametiga
West India Company
France
Jamaica
West Indies
New-York
Aguin
Speedwell
Friendship
Scaling
Stafford
Savile
Fom London
Hill
Sunderland
Goree
The
Straits
Dunkirk
Gibraltar
Deal
Sasannah
Beard
Enterprize
Kymer
Senegal
Downs
East- India Yard
Wind
Bedate
Christopher Darget
Jackson
Elephant and Castle
Skeldergate
Acomb
Holgate Bridge
Theatre Song and Political Satire at Bath Assembly
A fragmentary dramatic piece from Bath depicts a dispute among theatre factions over stage management and crowd reaction. A veteran manager interferes as music plays prompting a chorus of commentaries on harmony, appetite and the theatre’s fate. The dialogue riffs on ancient Rome, public taste, and the moral charge of the arts.
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Bath
Arthur
Rome
Agrippa
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Queen Mab
London Bridge
E &S
South Sea
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Mitro India Aue
Aths
Cr. Navy
India
Pre
Navy & Via
Gr. James's
Donner
Rofin
Joan
Waifpcroft
Arpeda
Mike
Valerian
Richard Baldwin
Paterenofter Row
J. Jackson
S. James’s Street
Pine Borles
Aioe
Aurhore Cme
Providence
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