Premiums for planting and husbandry proposed by society
The Society for the Encouragement of Arts Manufactures and Commerce in Strand proposes premiums for land improvement through experiments on waste land soils to gain gold medals. turningips among beans. true rhubarb cultivation. grassland rolling versus scarification. determining proper ploughing depths. and other agricultural tests with specified acreages timelines and certificates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Strand
Society For the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce
Persom
Lombardy
Suicide in Pall Mall and high life scandal at Soho
London reports detail Mr Shafto’s collapse at his Pall Mall home after a painful illness and a pistol suicide by hanging. The coroner’s jury returned a verdict of lunacy. The same issue notes aristocratic divorces, masquerades, and verses on a grand London scene with duels, intrigues, and the Rehearsal collections at St Paul’s.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Shafto
Newmarket
Dr. Thomas
Pall Mall
L R
Doctors Commons
Ler
Geo. P—t
Turin
Ligonier
France
Soho
Pentwearh
Gray
iLord T
Orooneéo
Iphigenia
Aulis
Col
Merlin
L. Macleane
Bagnio
St. Paul’s
Powell Edwards
Oriel College
Oxford
Llanmas
Glamorgan
Landaff
Neath
Robert Harrison
Baliol College
Broughton
Oxfordshire
Tidmarton
George Pawson
Bradwell
Essex
Long
F.R.S
Samuel Ardron
General Post Office
Miss Hughes
Berwick-street
Thomas William Powell
Fland
Jamaica
Jackson
Eigg
Waternewton
Huntingdonshire
Crookham
Northumberland
Dorothy Armstrong
Forster
New Inn
Mockrom
Lions Inn
Prices Bank Stock India Data and Annuity Rates
Prices for Bank Stock India 225 1 half South Sea old annuity 84 7 8ths new annuity 3 percent bank annuity red 86 1 half 5 8ths 3 percent continental 87 7 8ths plus more figures 4726 and related entries scattered in the column.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
India
South Sea
Bank Ann
Red
Contol
Queen's pregnancy declared and prayers ordered throughout dominions
London Gazette notes May 4 proclamation declaring the Queen's pregnancy and orders to arrange public prayers in churches across the dominions. Also reports Poland plague cessation and military promotions by Purchase in Horse Guards and other regiments. Rotterdam gossip: Lord Bute arrives incognito with entourage, seeks remedies from English apothecary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Copenhagen
Ditto
William Turner
Cornet
Purchase
Royal Reg. Horse Guards
John William Birch
Bulftrode
12Th Reg
Foot
Thomas Hitchbone
Tutteridge
George Burnett
Vece Cotton
Arthur Williams
Skene
John Hardy
White
Gsth
John Roberts
W. Roberts
Gsth Ditto
Philip Skene
Clements
Gibraltar
Duncan Fraser
Craig
Rotterdam
Stirift
Lord Bute
Robert Younge
Black Lion
Wine-street
Joh Stuart
Tho. Adams
Holland
History of England in Two Volumes by William Smith
This day was published neatly printed in two volumes octavo price bound twelve shillings for The History of England from earliest accounts to the 1638 Revolution by William Smith M D also issued the Nature and Institution of Government in two volumes octavo with feudal and English policy. Uniform four volume binding offered at one pound four shillings or separately as advertised.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
William Smith
W. Owen
Fleetstreet
Juvat
Antiquarian travels and Norse manners volume notice
A 18th century advertisement reviews two volumes on Danish and northern customs with notes by English and Latin translators. It praises Scandinavia as a liberty resource, citing Guth Jornindes and the view that northern nations fostered independence. mentions binding options and publication details.
Vesno's Vegetable Syrup Advertised by Dr Burrows
An advertisement extols Vesno's Vegetable Syrup as a remedy for scurvy and impure humours. It thanks chemists and physicians for support, claims superiority over empirics, and lists sales points in Loudgate Street, Castle Court near the Royal Exchange, and Hay Market opposite the Prince of Orange Coffee-house.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vesno
Burrows
Kearfly’s
Loudgate-street
el Cur
Royal Exchange
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Samuel More
NEW S&s
Portsmouth
Alexander
Dorrington
South Carolina
Dover
Warners
House of Commons
R-Gard
House of Corismons
Navy
Viét
Monf. Maller
Goranson
T. Girtan
F. Newbery
St. Paul’s Church- Yard
Scandinavia
Fiys
Europe
Jornindes
Boerhaave
Nature
W. Nicoll
St. Paul’s Church-yard
Richardson and Urquhart
T. Durham
Cockpur Street
Charingcross
R. Davis
Piccadilly
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