Debate on trade policy and woollen industry reforms
A manufacturer argues that ending export bounties on grain and shifting excise duties to malt could lower bread and beer prices, keep wages steady, reduce government costs, and protect woollen manufacture. He urges parishes to collect duties locally and warns against French competition, citing the Irish union and Scots’ gains as examples. He hints at further manufacturing regulations to follow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
Ireland
Silent Virtues and Honest Warnings Card
A letter to the London Evening Post printer from Henry Trapwit extols silence as true wisdom and brands insincere kindness as betrayal. It warns that light gains can empty purses while great fortunes arrive rarely, and cautions against liars, boastful jesters, and heartless physicians who misdirect pain.
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London
Mures
Henry Trapwit
Fies
Golden Rule Prophecy Prompts Sly Public Reading
An eclectic London Evening Post item promotes a little book arguing Wrone may be right and a minor number major, urging politicians to buy the work. It includes letters and notices, adverts, and foreign dispatches from Prussia, Genoa, Vienna, and Paris, plus local anecdotes and trade data.
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Wrone
London
Northumberland
Northumberland House
Charing-cross
Prussia
Poland
Genoa
Senate
Rome
Milan
Spart
Vienna
Tuscany
Lombardy
Venice
M. Horatio Bertolini
Paris
Rouen
Pyu
Rennes
East Florida
Great Britain
Board of Trade
New Providence
St. Eastatia
John Rankin
East-India Company
Pondicherry
East Indies
Bandix
Amsterdam
Bourdeaus
Bayonne
Batle-Bridge
Westminster
Cadiz
Holland
Embden
West Indies
Calais
Lisbon
Dunkirk
Deal
Fox
Downs
Prince Frederick
Baker
Carolina
Dominica
Earle
Madeira
Achin
Boaz
Jerusalem
Queen’s Arms
Ss. Paul's Church-yard
W. Nicoll
J. Pauls Church Yard
Brethren
Pedagogical Latin and Grammar Titles by Turner and Hoole
A catalog excerpt lists Latin language works by Charles Hoole and W. Turner, including Phearbus’s Fables with Exiplith Notes, Gospels for Sundays from Castalia, The Common Accidence with teacher aids, a little English-Latin vocabulary for children, Exercises to the Accidence, and Apparatus ad Linguam Graecam with grammatical tables and syntax notes, attributed to Geo Thompson.
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Phearbus
Castalia
Charles Hoole
W. Turner
M. A
Free Grammar School
Colchester
Geo
Thompson
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Coéder
Public Ledger
S. C
London Evening Post
Almon
Burlington House
Piccadilly
RiCgeos Bank
India
South Sea
Qld
Ce. Bk Red
Dicco
Navy
High Water
London Bridge
Corderius
William Willymot
L.L. D
King’s College
Cambridge
Tio
Longman
S. Ryley
M.D
S. Crowder
J. Coore
King’s Arms
Great Briain
Treland
Crowder
Dr. Hill
Pas J
Colkstvor
Lick
Folia Editong
Holman
Boer
Shaw
Quincy
James
Hill
Beaume de V
LE Lievre
Medicie
Agnes
Versons
Givin G Ratise
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