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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jan 18, 1780
Page
2
A Yorkshire freeholder urges a publicly proposed association to support a petition to Parliament for reforming civil list abuses. He notes the plan is pacific and lawful, aims to reduce salaries and abolish sinecures, and warns opponents may resist reform.
A new comic opera The Shepherdess of the Alps opened at Covent Garden with Marquis of Bellamine and his party pursuing a shepherdess amid misadventures. The plot centers on love, disguise, and mistaken identity as characters scheme and court the Alpine beauty.
Public notice announces R Henderson master of Hanham Academy has opened a receptacle for the mentally afflicted. Patients will be kept, cared for, and compassionately attended to. A registered physician will visit the house near Briad on the upper Bath Road to discuss terms and proper arrangements.
In January 1780 a group including Sir Robert Smyth and other Essex gentlemen request Sheriff William Godfrey to call a county meeting at Chelmsford Sessions House to discuss reform of public finances, pensions, and relief for the distressed country. The Sheriff replies he cannot authorize such a meeting citing authority doubts and timing concerns.
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