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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jun 28, 1770
Page
1
A fragment notes a London society instituted for encouragement of arts manufactures and commerce, supporting public arts funding and related activities. The text references a public role and societal aims without clear dates or names.
Friday last the King visited the Carmelites at St Dennis to see his daughter Madame Louisa and stayed a long while. The public shows at Versailles are scheduled to end next Wednesday.
In Marblehead on the 6th instant a meeting of freeholders and residents passed votes to continue the non-importation agreement. Goods shipped to be reshipped, freight repaid, and the town to enforce tea abstention. Committee reports 717 heads of families signed, 17 refused, seven later joined, ten advertised.
Remains of the late Lord Mayor were moved from Soho Square to Fonthill to be interred in the family vault. Attended by three coaches and six, with chaplain and clerks, four domestic servants on horseback. Interment to occur tomorrow evening. Also news of naval surveys, a large East Indies diamond, and a court appointment replacing Alexander Coningham in the Dragoons.
On Wednesday the Hon. Gen. Cholmondeley kissed his Majesty's hand at St. James's upon being named Governor of Chester castle in place of the late Earl of Cholmondely. An election for a lecturer of the parish of S Mary, Aldermanbury, elected Rev. Francis Finch without opposition. John Offley, MP for Bedford, is gravely ill at his New Burlington Street home. The horse Liberty, winner at Beverley, changed hands for 10 guineas on sale before a forthcoming 1000 guineas challenge against Chatsworth. Court moves in Home Circuit list Hertford, Chelmsford, Guildford, Horsham, Maidstone. A fire at Fleet Market damaged nine shops. Road robbery incidents involved Mr Williams, a riding surveyor, and Dr Hill. Marriages, deaths, and local notices follow, including Rev. Ballard, Mr Cartwright, and other residents in Bookham, Lambeth, Little Chelsea, Mitchel Street, and Arlington.
A combative colonial era letter accuses Sir Edward of betraying constitutional principles and urges the First Lord of the Admiralty to resist ministry pressure. It laments naval grievances, condemns corruption, and demands honest exertion of naval power. The text also notes a genuine copy sent by a South Carolina supporters committee replying to the Assembly’s subscription to the Society of fifteen hundred pounds sterling.
A lengthy correspondence from John Glynn and fellow subjects appeals to English and American allies, defending rights against taxation without representation. It cites unity between England and America, warns against despotism, and pledges mutual aid while praising constitutional liberty.
A man declares in the St James Chronicle that he was imprisoned unjustly by the King's Bench judges and challenges legal methods used against him. He vows continued opposition to what he calls an illegal attachment process and thanks the court only to the degree of repaying harm with restraint.
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