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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jul 04, 1767
Page
3
A veteran writer argues that disbanding forces would leave the nation vulnerable to an enemy with a large banded army. He cautions that militia officers are needed and training must continue, praising disciplined militia under civil authority as England’s protection against foes.
In Galway county a gathering of gentlemen agreed a bill to limit Parliaments to seven years and resolved to present an address to their representatives urging support. The report notes local economic efforts and distress in woollen trades, with various regional notices from Limerick to Bath and London society scenes.
From Lisbon a governor was urged to answer conduct beyond his committee. in Cornwall, Mr Evelyn won the election replacing Sir John Evelyn. Niger arrived on the coast to curb contraband trade. Tallow prices fell 7d per stone. Two to three hundred Highlanders sailed for East Florida. Rev Cages of Grimstone was badly injured falling from a horse near Godmanchester. George Brown of Kingsdown, Bristol, died aboard a regiment foot.
In Liverpoole, July 1767, proposals are invited from able persons to trap with the Lamp Commissioners for cleaning furnishing gilt and cotton-wick and lighting the town lamps for the ensuing season. Proposals must be delivered to the Mayor's Exchange on the 13th of July between ten and eleven in the forenoon. Lighting begins at the first dark moon in September and continues for nine successive moons, twenty two nights each moon, from sunset to daybreak.
A late postscript essay ridicules public slander and political hypocrisy. It questions the integrity of Mr Pitt and Lord Chatham, argues virtue is publicly scrutinized, and defends a sovereign’s independent judgment against insinuations of bribery or corruption.
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