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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jun 18, 1767
Page
4
ANGLICUS argues that the public should compare the present Constitution with its original form to judge how rights and liberties have changed. He cites yearly Parliaments, paid MPs, sheriff selections, magistrate appointments, standing armies, and Crown control as key shifts, urging citizens to assess current footing.
May 19 reports joy at court over the birth of the Prince to the Princess of Brazil. A second note on May 25 confirms the Prince, born May 14, was baptized at Notre Dame D Ajuda with royal presence and the full name Jean Marie Joseph Louis Francois Xavier de Paul Dominique.
London reports a bill aims to end illegal gaming and stock-jobbing. The Earl of Pomfret, the Earl and Countess of Anglesea, the Earl of Exeter, and the Prussian Ambassador Count Malzham are noted at London lodgings. News covers silk from Germany, a statue in New Brunswick, a Temple-bar debate on crime, and society events.
A man carried from Cheapside after a fall from a horse may not survive. A boy injured rides to St. Bartholomew's Hospital. Fourteen gamblers arrested in Chelsea Fields by Sir J Fielding’s men. Dunkirk reports over thirty vessels loaded with brandy, tea, tobacco for smuggling to Shetland and Orkney. Laurel carries 35 hogsheads brandy and three tons tea from a Cherbourg smuggling vessel to Penzance. A large seizure of foreign laces worth 300 pounds occurs on the Deptford road. Three boxes of Birmingham half pence seized from a ship bound for America. Shipping notices list several vessels sailing to Lisbon Maryland Jamaica and Dublin. others remain in the Downs awaiting winds.
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