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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Mar 23, 1775
Page
4
The passage warns against rebellion and foreign influence, predicting unnamed powers may profit from strife. It pleads for Providence to intervene, denounces traitors who divide England from America, and fears universal anarchy, ruined trade, and threatened property security.
A letter to the London Evening Post argues climate or situation may shape virtue or vice in towns and villages. The writer cites instances of uniform local character, noting hospitality and candor in some areas contrasted with pride and cunning elsewhere. He suggests inhabitants retain traits over generations and mentions Pool residents pressed Parliament despite oppression, quoting Lord Chancellor Bacon on Pool as a fish-pool for devils.
A brief notice from the London Evening Post concerns the printer Ye and his role within the publication. The item notes the printer’s duties and ties to the newspaper’s printing practices during its era.
The fragment speaks of reverence for a character described as a religious prince. The speaker laments inability to explain or justify the gift given to a friend, noting only his singing of catches and glees at a rout of rafcablions and bidding farewell.
A list of prominent figures appears: Mr. Buke, Lord J Cavendish, Mr. Powis, Mr. Tuffoell, Lord Irwin, Mr. Sawbridge, r Fox, Mr. Fielde, Mr. Hotham, AF, Biffie, Mr. Jenkinson, Lord Clare, Mr. Cornwall, Hon Mr Paulett, Bir Lister, Lord G Germaine, Lord Fred Campbell, Attorney General, Governor Lyttelton. The document records these names in a formal roster style typical of political correspondence of the era.
Fragmented verse outlines a transformation of society with allegorical symbols like Bread, Islands, and Eagles. The speaker imagines a radically free, noble commonwealth where trade flourishes and a brave populace prevails, signaling a coming epoch beyond current limits before death and legacy.
The London Evening Post contains a heated retort titled Day-Lite versus Erebus. A writer accuses a Lexicographer of falsifying claims about Fanney Ma Pherson and Scotch ditties. The exchange questions timing at St Andrew's and a Dr J visit, noting a midnight journey through dark woods. March 14.
Postscript from London presents an authentic copy of the Petition of the North American Merchants. It pleads against a new colonial governance since Parliament, warns of trade disruption and possible famine, and urges royal clemency and restraint. It references Burke and recent debates, and reports local outbreaks, fires, and accidents.
A fragment reflects on Lord North’s habit of proposing schemes the minority cannot grasp, aiming to force a decisive balance and control the motion in parliamentary exchanges. The passage notes the risk of presenting a better alternative being missed.
Bridewell Hospital March 25 1775 the Committee of Treasury invites sealed proposals to lease a four story house on Bride Street built 1773 with five rooms per floor two wine vaults coach-house and stables for four horses viewable by applying to John Woodhouse Esq proposals due next Saturday at Bethlem Hospital at eleven o clock the house to be entered on immediately for fourteen seven or twenty one years.
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