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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
May 07, 1767
Page
4
A letter from OLD Square TOES asks for numbers across multiple social categories for 1716 and 1766. It seeks counts of Coaches Chariots Chaires Horses Footmen Tradesmen country houses and dinners laced waistcoats bankrupts public venues marriages ladies of pleasure surgeons estates and bribery and corruption, to compare virtue and industry between eras.
A letter to the Printer of the London Evening Post by Democritus denounces sympathy for the poor amid high provisions. He argues the Legislature should hang up the useless poor to lower prices, views the poor as part of rich property, and mocks efforts to protect the poor as wasteful. He cites Mr Hanway with contempt and asserts providential rank between rich and poor.
In reply to Liverpoole inquiry the writer asserts England started four wheel post carriages before the French, with the first four wheel post carriage built at Richmond in November 1749. He notes German use possibly a century earlier and offers Mr James Cotton of Richmond as authority for further proof.
A Mail from Holland dated April 2 reports the imperial majesty’s satisfaction as elections proceed across the empire for deputies to form a new code of laws. The assembly will open in June in the city, with several deputies already arriving. Field Marshal Conant Refomowhi, recently Hetman, is expected during his travels of fifteen months. Marfa, April 43 notes Maundy Thursday devotions at the college gate church of St John and the king later washed the feet of old men totaling 1509 years in age. The Crown’s Cup-Bearer issued a manifesto regarding Thorn attendance and related matters.
Fragmented despatches from Mot such as Mittau Copenhagen Vienna Berlin Leghorn and Bologna report diplomatic moves in Poland Lithuania and German states. Royal letters urge unity while nobles assemble for confederacy events. News notes include arrivals in Leghorn and Bonn audiences with nuncios and a death in Utrecht.
London reports an extract from Madrid about the expulsion of Jesuits across Europe and the Spanish monarchy. A French officer in Paraguay seized manuscripts said to contain damning instructions from the Society’s General. A war council condemned him for disobedience, sentencing him to imprisonment.
Dispatches from Francis Bernard and private talks with Count d Artois surface as Corsican and French affairs stir London. Rumors claim Paschal de Paoli funding and Corsican independence talks with the Sardinian envoy, while in society various routs and a coffeehouse debate on monopolies reflect political climate and public sentiment.
A fragmentary OCR list shows travel and port prices including Antwerp Hamburg Paris Cadiz and Genoa values with fractions andold monetary markers. The snippet resembles a late era shipping or trade table with navigational or fare figures rather than a narrative report.
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