Publishing Bakers Names to Deter Fraud in Bread
Letter to the London Evening-Post urges publishing the names and addresses of bakers found guilty of selling bread short of weight as a deterrent. Frustration with judicial clemency is voiced, arguing public exposure would end such practices. The piece discusses inoculation debates and certifying inoculators, and closes with a short poetic verse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London Evening-Post
Menges
Meres
Sutton
Oxontensis
Oxoniensis
Carnarvon
London Evening Post
Langton
Humanus
Intelligence Extraordinary and Wind Congress at East West North South
West End hears of a congress to fix the wind’s stance for future stability. A plan aims to curb boisterous North winds that risk setting all afloat again. The editor withholds a letter about a disputing society president due to irreligious content. a Sunderland native will be inserted first opportunity.
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Stland
Proteus
Sunderland
Sall
Milington
York
Liverpool
Chrisliana
Riga
Philadelphia
Amsterdam
Rotterdam
Ireland
John Douglas
Osgodby
Ann Sowerby
Escrick
Timothy Sowerby
Ann
Sanderson
Howden
David Smith
Feeder
Pinkney
Smith
Deal
S. W
Thunderstorm Devastates Conde Area Mortality and Damage
Mail from Flanders reports a severe thunder, hail and wind storm near Auzin and Conde, destroying corn and houses, toppling windmills and trees, with several fatalities and injuries from falling debris. Two men were crushed under a draw bridge amid southwest winds.
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Flanders Valenciennes
Auzin
Conde
Vienna
Duke of
Aremberg
Brussels
M. Durini
Poland
Rome
Romania
Civita Vecchia
Florence
London Gossip and Royal Movements Amid Court Rumors
Broad summary of European and British aristocracy including Earl of Bristol’s continuing role in Ireland, potential successors for the Ireland Lord High Chancellor, royal travels of Princess Ponijatowski and Prince de Ligne, Lord Clive’s Bengal gifts, Plymouth dispatches, and local notices from Bath to London with market, births, deaths, and public events.
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London
Earl of Bristol
Ireland
Lord Bowes
Anthony Malone
Hiit
Philip Tildell
Lord Mansfield
Charles Yorke
Thomas Sewell
Richard Aston
James Hewett
King’s Bench
M. Mello de Castro
Earl of
Bath
Sarsfield
Sohoquare
Newnham
Earl of Harcourt
Oxfordshire
England
Bristol
Tunbridge
Lord Clive
Bengal
Cape of Good-Hope
Lord Holland
Britannia
East-i India Company
Plymouth
Amelia
Mount Edgecumbe
Stonehouse
Lord Edgecumbe
Huxham
Queen’s Arms
Newgate-Street
Thames
Queenhithe
West Country
Flanders
Streights
Horselydown
Marseilles
Corsica
Porsmouth
O'Neil
Ile of Man
Lord Warlisfe
Italy
Kingstreet
St. James's
St. George’s Church
Hanover Square
William Skinner
Miss Warren
Sir Peter Warren
Fitzroy
Brompton
Daniel Hayes
Enfield Chafe
Philip Carew
Blandford Races
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Justitia
Bishopsgate - Street
Chick-lane
Bagnige Wells
London Bridge
India
South Sea
Dicto Fhur
Cr. Bk Re
Consol
India Ann
Navy
S&s
Can- Non Park
King’s-clere
Overton
Newbery
Basingstakte
Andover
Meff
Coulthurst
Gordon
Chancery-Lane
W. Bromfield
Princess Dowager of Wales
St. George’s
Lock Hospitals
T. Davies
Ruffel-Street
Covent-Garden
J. Dodsley
Pall-mall
J. Brotherton
Royal Exchange
M. Hingerton
Temple-Bar
Churchill
Wirxgs
Lronchin
Voltaire
East-India Company
J. Almon
Royal Academy
Paris
Thomas. Nugent
Edward
Charles Dilly
Poultry
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