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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jul 06, 1797
Page
1
A notice from Phurcher and Go announces a new Honey No. 62 shop opposite the King's Mews in Charing Cross. They offer painting and paper hanging with a new method, showing exact room effects using varied specimens to avoid disappointments from small patterns. They claim to demonstrate how plain rooms can be improved at a very small expense.
A periodical notice promoting general arming of all men of property. It argues urgent danger and the need for immediate measures. Published in London by the Royal Exchange press, price one shilling and sixpence. The piece is attributed to the editor of a horticultural or agricultural publication.
An 18th century notice describes shares in a State Lottery with detailed divisions and profits. It notes the first 30,099 prize shares sold by J Bransgleb Co Stock Brokers, comparing half, quarter, eighth, and sixteenth shares, and cites prizes in the 1796 February draw. It urges buyers not to rush, mentions fewer tickets than last Irish Lottery, and promises punctual orders and careful negotiation of government securities.
WIFT and Co No 11 Poultry inform the public that the Irish Lottery draws begin with the late lottery of 40,000 tickets containing 30 prizes from 10,050 to 50,000. The present lottery of 30,000 tickets has 29 prizes of similar value, making the capital prize odds better by about a quarter. Prizes and shares priced at £10,000, £3,330, and £5000 are noted. Swift and Co emphasize low prices and prompt responses to country orders, with prizes paid as if the purchaser were present.
New publication notice for Family Secrets Domestic by Mr Pratt in five volumes at 11 5s. The literary notice praises the work as tender and involving love, with favorable remarks from Monthly Review and Analytical Review in 1797.
A period notice catalogues admired works including Pratt’s Humanitarian writings and the Rights of Nature, two French Revolution studies, and Emigre histories. It praises Campbell’s Journey over land to India with reflections and peril, and notes popular tales by Mrs. West and Mrs. Parsons, highlighting virtue, morality, and engaging storytelling.
Details of entries and weights for two days of racing at the King's Stables course. Jockeys, sires, dams, owners, and horses listed for Monday and Tuesday July Stakes events, with plus weights and classifications.
The July Gatlands Sweepstakes of 2593 each is declared by eight o'clock Tuesday evening for all ages except two year olds. Weighing and entries close, with conditions on sale of the winning horse and main stake. Present subscribers listed include Duke of Grafton, Sir C Bunbury, Lord Clermont, and others.
A fragmentary note lists Mr. Watson's Edgar an 8 ft 2lb agit and Sir John Shelley's Buckingham with a measurement of 7t 12/6 Ab M sogs.
Friday at the Admiralty Office a large attendance marked the admission of wounded seamen into Greenwich Hospital. About one hundred were admitted as in and out pensioners. Last week the Cape of Good Hope shipment included a ship of 800 tons carrying coals and flour. The coal cost in the port was food and its transport to the Cape will run to 6000 pounds more. Flour is sent because mills are scarce despite wheat plenty to support military and other needs.
A report details several captures by privateers including the Phebe Spence and the Robert Kent and Speculator off the Humber. The Achilles was seized off the Western Isles, eight other English vessels captured. Survivors from a sunken vessel built a watercraft platform to escape and reach Shetland, aided by poles and sails, after sixteen men perished.
Plymouth reports a mutinous crew aboard the Saturn, 74 guns, after which a squad removed powder and secured the ship. About twenty conspirators to be confined for trial while other vessels remain in harbor ready for convoy to Torbay under Lord Bridport’s fleet with the Sprightly and Argus in escort.
St Fohns Antigua July 29 1796 Henry Tamil Tore testifies after twenty six years of goat ailments. He claims hot salivation and Sprissiny's Drops relieved symptoms and cured his phlegm and chalky swellings. Doctors Wardrobe and Wilkinson advised sea voyage for further benefit and he praises the medicine sold at the Dispenter Soho Square and general Venus Medicines in towns.
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