A Peculiar Siren Tale In a London Evening Post Letter
The excerpt presents a garbled dialogue with archaic diction and oblique references to a sailor, Bacchus, and a widow, framed as a letter from Liverpoole dated March 8. It weaves placeholder characters with mock sermon, quips about licencing, and a moralizing closing note urging readers to avoid oppression and pride while lamenting misfortune aboard a wrecked ship.
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London
Evening Post
Liverpoole
Sam
Fatty Bacchus
Derry Dows
Hall
Shrewbury
Buckinghamshire
Ruta
Hanover
Admialty Board
Poland
Charles Town
South Carolina
West Florida
Mobille
Johnston
Tyne
Shields
Holland
Hoglane
Soho
Lambert
Islington
Bucher
Newcastle
Oliver
Ile
Sedgefield
Durham
Dunkirk
India
Fuftic
Deal
Downs
Letters from Europe and Crimean Events Update
A mixed London and continental dispatch reports political moves in Prussia and Walachia, a fire in Pera, and pestilence notes. It cites Royal and papal affairs, Polish troop movements, and new ministers amid global tinderbox tensions and local crime accounts.
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Holland
Sanders
Constantinople
Rince Sephanitza-Rackowitz
Walachia
Pera
Denmark
Pacha
Aga
Janissaries
Seraglio
Warsaw
Czartorinski
Vienna
Dyet
Prefourgh
Hunary
Dresden
Marquess de Maragritia
Konigsberg
Alena
Rome
Targus
Damascus
Wilkes
Europe
Florence
Leghorn
Marquess de la Bandinella
the Two Sicilies
Algiers
Paris
Apers
Versailles
Mursover
Stri&est
Brussels
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X. Bates
Amandor
Bacchus
Derry Down, &c
Maryland
Derry Down
Poe
Ferdinand
Coatt, Derry Down
Derry
London Evening-Post
London-Evenine Post
Ireland
N. B
Hasiemere
Sherborne
Cyder
Per Laf
St. Kat's
Young
St. Kitt’s
Thétman
Haylon
Mary
Land
Drury-Lane
Covent-Garden
Thomas
Sally
Bray- Market
Damofoonte
Drury-Laine
Olmeco
Goar
Hise Lear
London-Bridge
South Sea
Redu
Confol
St-James’s. Hay
Straw
Hogarth
Honlz
Golden Head
Leicester Fields
N.R
Arth
Hogarty
Norice
RJ Whitworth
His
County of
Stafford
J. Dadsley
Pall-Mall
J Wilkie
St. Paul’s
Stuents
A. Millar
Strand
W. Fleaney
Bookseler
Gray's
Iro Gice
Holbours
Hill
Baldwin
Paternofter Row
Ridley
Bookfeller
Ste James