A Young Woman’s View of Town Life and Family
A twenty year old writes from Landon Evening-Part style about visiting her aunt in town. She notes spending money, observing three lively cousins, and choosing to stay indoors to study temperaments, while recovering from a fashionable cold. She contrasts high life with religion and principles, requesting future explanations.
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Treresa
Mit
Hirty
Yineas
Belleisle
Epward Hawke
Britain
France
Flower de Luce
Fempert
Museum Florentinums
Nicot
Tempest
Hawke
Mercator
War of unity urged amid British public urged
The London Evening Post editor urges readers to avoid divisions during the critical wartime period. He warns that French plots aim to split the nation and urges steadfast unity to pressure France toward honorable peace.
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France
The
London Evening Post
Destruction of Chemnitz and Dresden in War News
Extracts from Saxony news describe Austrian forces under Lutzen by seizing Chemnitz with 600 Prussian prisoners and few cannons, while deserters flock to the imperial army. Reports note Prussian forces in Silesia and possible moves toward Freyberg, with battles and reinforcements shaping the broader conflict in Moravia and Holstein.
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London
Saxony
Lutzinfty
Chemnitz
Schmettau
M. Luzinsky
Serbelloni
Freyberg
Dresderi
Silesia
Upper Silesia
Werner
Moravia
Lafey
Bethlem
Franfort
HeTia
Hamburgh
Pomerania
Holstein
Cleves
Prince of Conde
Munster
Zylburg
Petersburgh
Devi
France
Paris
Russia
Barone
Bretéuil
Czar
Tyre
Spithead
Anna
Catherina
Dahl
Downs
Basque Road
Géuhtry -Howse
Potter’s Bar
Barnet
Richards
Alderfyarestreet
Dunn
Jamaica
Walton Bridges
Coleman Street
Prices and Stocks from a Historic Bank Ledger Fragment
A fragmented ledger lists prices and stock notes including Banke at 162k , 95 half India Stock 116 , South Sea 76 eta Old Ann and various ditto entries. References to Bank Redu ditto 1726, Picco wzsx7, India Ann 76 x half, Dirco 1758, and multiple 1762 gilt lines for bonds and scrip are noted. Also mentions Navy and Vid Bills, 4 per Cents, and Old Long Ann 176t with 3-Scis years pur.
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Picco
Dirco
Bank Corral
Navy
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Prin Ber
Flanders
Rome
Ince
Civita Y Vecchia
Republic of Genoa
Portugal
Spain
Naples
Furky
Othman
Austria
Prussia
Parma
Turin
House of ‘Bourbon
Kulwein
Conflans
Ervelféldr
Boeékurm
Conde
Doritdim
Bothuny
Highgate
Finchleycommer
Hlington
Wellclose Square
Holland
Germany
Dantzig
Maidstone
H'S Majesty
Torrington
Terpsichore
Martin
Strombulo
Salamander
Pluto
Portmouth
Leghorn
Stangate-creek
Sheerness
Plutarch
Pericles
Alcibiades
Timoleon
Artaxagoras
Fabius
Italy
Minucius
Socrates
Easibs
Coriolanus
Bee Ie
Tiioleon
Timioleon
Familius
Perseus
Newbery
St. Paul’s Church-Yard
Fahori
Theseus
Romulus
Lycurgus
Numa
Solon P. Valerius
Poplicola
Themistogless
Fuing Camillus
St.James’s Market
Whitechapel
Son Exchange
York
Cotinsry
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