Murder and trials stretch across Northampton and Halifax
Reports from Northampton detail the executions for murder and burglary, with William Snow sentenced to death but reprieved before execution, and William Mersham also condemned. Halifax dispatches note Howe’s fleet movements, the Coldstream draft, and regiments bound for America, alongside overseas intelligence and various arrivals and losses.
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New
Northampton
William Snow
Thomas Palmer
Little Bowden
William Mersham
Thomas Tyers
Southwick
Snow
Willes
Anderton
Stuart
Bragg
Goddard
Meff. Smith and Davis
Resolution
Sims
Dover
Halifax
Lord Germaine
Lord Howe
Ireland
Coldstream
Guards
Portsmouth
America
Howe
Lord Percy
New-York
George Germaine
Basil Keith
Jamaica
Bradford
Peter Parker
Lord Cornwallis
North Carolina
Cadiz
South America
Madrid
Harriet
Blackburn
Barbadoes
Plymouth
Neptune
Swords
Greenland
Whitby
Corkie
Gilbert Elliot
Morpeth
Byron
Admiralty
Culloden
Deptford
Publicity of a London flight amid scandal and lunar eclipse
A London tale reports a swift domestic withdrawal with a female friend, defended as innocent and private. It notes a forthcoming total lunar eclipse visible in England, with astronomical figures. Also covered are arrests in Whitechapel, a burglary at Cavendish Square, local court notices, a Devon MP’s funeral, a Norwich medical board quip, grain prices, and a Liverpool races summary.
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London
England
Faeland
Riley
Saltpetre Bank
Brick Lane
Whitechapel Watch-House
Brockman
Queen Anne-street
Cavendish-square
Stratford
Essex
Ship Tavern
Woolwich
Kent
Poltimore
Exeter
Richard BampfylJe, Bart
Devon
Azculapius
Norwich
John Drake
Caufton
Thom Reeve
Welton
Coffey
Cringleford
Corn Exchange
An Enemy to Fictional Romances and Youth
A wary critique warns parents against romances as poisons to virtue. It argues they inflame passion, mislead imagination, and corrupt judgment, comparing them to Italian poisons and warning that readers may imitate contrived intrigues and lose moral direction to vanity and fantasy.
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Hell
Nero
Rome
Celia
Damon
Pamela
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Stephan
James Lowther
Sloven
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Young Fellow
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Chefnut Cole
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Mr. Patten
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Experiment
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Strange
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Watson
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Flest-street
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Stokes the Younger
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Hexton
Hitchin
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Smith
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Robinson and
Oddie
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Meif. Wallis and Stonehouse
Paria
Clapham
Samuel Glasse
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Ss. Paul’s Churche Yard
C. Parker
J. Fletcher
Ford
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Caubridge
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