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London Evening Post

Location

London, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Date

Feb 22, 1766

Page

4

Vast London Gossip and Notices Report Amid War News

A long letter pack reports on Alderman H- and a misbearing charge over the American Stamp Act, plus a tale of a lovelorn tradesman who joins the army and returns rich, then a wealth of international dispatches from Warsaw to Genoa including regiments, trials, and naval plans. Local deaths, serene religious notices, weather, shipping, and theatre listings fill the page.

London Evening Post Mzres Westminster Adan

The Jack-Ass and Horses Fable Reluit in Specule

A humorous fable told as an English notice from February expresses the jackass Balaam mocked by horses. The donkey struggles with overacting, while a laughing horse chides him for seeking a role beyond his nature, noting horses carry state work and beggars and tinkers lack true public talent.

West Country Amanuensis Jack Balaam Norton Goldene Square John Norton

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