Credulous Simon Defends Gulliver and Fish Scheme
A satirical letter from Simon Credulous defends Gulliver's travels and a fish distribution plan, arguing benevolence and public good despite public doubt. It also comments on grain engrossing, farmer rents, and grain thrasher economics to aid the poor, ending with an apocryphal song about Wilkes and liberty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gulliver
Westminster
Laputa
Benevolus
Lemuel Gulliver
Sam
Simon
Court and politics in London and Bath chatter
London notes report a court and drawing room at St James's and dispatches to Ireland and Holland. Rumors place Hertford as Secretary of State and Grafton as ambassador to France. A citizen proposes petition to restore a great commoner. Magna Charta tale at Temple Bar pits lawmen in comic clash. Reports from Vienna Berlin Rome and Leghorn touch emperors, Euler, and Holstein affairs. Local incidents include theft of prayer items, a marriage in St Giles, and a fight among Hibernian boatmen. Continues with emigration fears, stock and price lists, and a Bath envoy’s letter on garden plans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
St. James’s
Richmond
Ireland
East India Company
Holland
Earl of Hertford
Duke of Grafton
France
Temple Bar
Vienna
Maria-Teresa
Berlin
Meif. Euler
Academy of Sciences
Petersburgh
Russia
Hamburgh
Baron de Saldern
Copenhagen
Baron de Korf
Denmark
Holstein
Ratisbon
Swabia
Hungary
America
Upper Rhine
Rome
Southwark
Guildhall
Samuel Chitty
St. Giles’s Church
Fields
John Crofts
Lincoln’s Inn
Pinnock
Great Queen-street
Justice Fielding
Northern Favorite Writes Consoling Letter to Exiled Marquis
A Northern Favourite allegedly penned a consoling letter to Marquis Squillace on his expulsion from Spain. The missive reportedly surpasses Servius Sulpicius letter to Cicero in eloquence and promises a Naples visit if tumult and hostile times drive him from the country.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Squillace
Spain
Servius Sulpicius
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Naples
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London Evening Post
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Old
England
Tereed
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Britain
Minghara
Une
Sieur Comus
Pai
Gévérn
Dividnand Rutter
Byron
California
Leghorn
Corsica
Gibraltar
Morocco
Downs
China
Temple-bar
York
Liverpoole
Isle of Man
Deal
Lawrence
Rurden
Jamaica
Robinson
Guinea
Portland
Higgins
South Carolina
Aurora
Paulson
Madeira
Wind S. W
London Bridge
Irices Bank
India
Titto Old Ann
Bk Red
Amster
Rotferd
Antwerp
Paris
Bourdeaux
Cadiz
Navy
Long Ann
Change
C. Madrid
Bilboa
Genoa
Venice
Lisbon
Sd Porto
Dublin
Bea
R. G—rr
Bath
P—rce
Lillip
G—rr
Mexico
Corn Exchange
Ser Sack
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