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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jan 29, 1774
Page
4
A London Evening Post editor argues that restricting parish settlements by residence will burden towns near centers of industry and strip rates from main occupiers. He urges repeal of forty days residence and parish-rate settlements, proposing a broader reform to relieve the industrious poor.
A London Evening Post reader argues Parliament must be free from placemen pensioners and bribe seekers. He warns against candidates tied to ministerial favor and urges abolishing or trimming offices and pensions to restore public virtue and national harmony. He cites Cato and laments ministerial influence corrupting elections and eroding electors’ trust.
A London Evening Polit. Bon Mot notes a gentleman asking a friend if he visited the School of Shakespeare. The reply ironizes about Dr. Kenrick’s fate, claiming he has been damned and gone to the Devil, with a wry hint at the Danor’s last comedy and its hoped redemption.
The piece summarizes a heated Privy Council session on Saturday with fierce attacks by Mr Wedderburn on Dr Franklin and American affairs. It notesDismissals of agents, potential troop movements, and political rancor around Lord Shelburne and Lord Bute, plus market and local notices from Boston to Portsmouth, including ship arrivals and public sales.
An 18th century advertisement for a 4S Companion to the Almanack or Annual Calendar notes a bead sheet with army and navy tables, bankers list, Oxford and Cambridge universities, and court officers. It mentions the Sentimental Magazine and a second volume with engravings of the Marquis of Gurney and Samuel Sterne, priced 6d, printed for authors and offered by book sellers.
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