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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jul 05, 1770
Page
1
The Society in London offers premiums for experiments on hemp quality including plucking and processing, flax, and cultivating roots and herbage for feeding sheep and black cattle. Awards include gold medals and monetary prizes with deadlines in 1770s, detailing sample requirements and cultivation conditions.
Friday July 6 ship news lists arrivals and sailings. Vessels from Liverpool Bristol Antigua Honduras and Hull dock or depart. Several ships report origins including London Antigua Antigua Bremen and Portsmouth with names such as Rel Bennet and Nancy.
London news recounts King and Queen at St James s after her confinement with the Prince of Mecklenburg Strelitz. A near horse mishap is noted. Local elections and aldermanic candidacies are listed alongside society notes, remonstrances, and a plan for a Beckford statue in Guildhall. Reports of burglaries, drownings, assaults, and marriages fill the dense column.
Fragmentary notice mentions ag and Mr Jones along with Aronieosigns and Hardware-man in Upper Thames Street and Alexander Commyns, Efc in Liebester-fields. The garbled text references individuals and firms in specific locales but lacks coherent actions or dates.
A dense polemic argues that the Methodist creed accepts reason and intermediate ideas, defending its use of logic against anti Methodism. It praises Methodism for reforming individuals, noting moral improvement in believers, while warning against appeals to emotion and unfounded abuse, and it defends faith justified by grace through Christ.
A fragment discusses a private letter to the printer reaching the country and a possible reply from Rationalis. It notes that no public answer will be expected and mentions Rational and Rationalis in a tone of cautious dialogue about religion and moderation.
A London Evening Post excerpt questions Arthur Murphy about involvement in the Brentford mob on December 8 1768. It asks if he polled for whom and whether he signaled an attack, suggesting plans to force a double return by destroying records and accusing him of drafting scandalous ads to vilify Captain Allen and Serjeant Glynn. The writer promises further contact.
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