Weavers of Spitalfields Peaceful but Large Protest
Morning crowds in Spitalfields and London paraded with flags and French silks amid a large peaceful demonstration. Guards maintained order at Westminster, and a meeting with Mercers and Weavers led to recalling foreign goods contracts and immediate work for journeymen. Public disturbance near Ludgate Hill prompted the Riot Act threat, but dispersal followed.
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Lensponr
Spitalfields
Holborn
Covent-garden
Ludgate-hill
Strand
Gracechurch-street
London- Bridge
Borough
Westminster-bridge
Horse Guards
Grénadiers
Foot Guards
Old Palace-yard
House of Lords
Parliament House
Westminster Hall
Stree's
John Fielding
New Guildhall
Mr. Carr and Co. Mercers
Ludgatehill
Globe Tavern
Bedford House
St. James’s
Richmond
Earl of Sandwich
Sweden
Horse Grenadier Guards
Hyde Park
Dukes of York
Gloucester
Flamborough
Portsmouth
Plymouth
Mr. Shuter
Covent Garden House
Shuter
Ais
St. Kitt’s
George Weatherill
Island
Blizard
Judge Blizard
Antigua
Tottenham High-cross
Joseph Ransom
Hitchin
Hertfordshire
Mercy Bland
Stamper Bland
Lambard Street
Higgs
Forty-hill
City and Liberty of
Westminster
Middlesex
Red Lion-street
Hulborn
Villetee
Mark Lane
Beast of Gevaudan Said Killed by Peasant
Report from France notes a wild beast blamed for cattle losses in Gevaudan was killed near Panoufe by Valentin who runs M. de Kandon’s farm. The creature fired twice, then carried to Mendes, later judged to be a young wolf rather than a wolf of myth, with conflicting sightings altering the tale.
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Lewers
France
Hague
Panoufe
Saugues
Valentin
M. de Kandon
Mendes
Montpellier
M. d’Enneval
Historic Windsor Forest estate auction listing in Easthamstead area
A detailed notice advertises the full let of Souta Hill or Fisher’s fort in Windsor Forest, describing a grand ground floor with hall dining room and studies, plus five first floor chambers and extensive outbuildings. Grounds include water features, serpentine lake, two mile walk, park fencing, and about sixty acres more land reserved. inquiries to Brice Fisher Esq and others. Also notes inventor R Colegret’s leather Cathethers and Bovices now available at the Golden Ball near the New Exchange Building Strand with export allowances.
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Windsor Forest
William Watts
Easthamistead
Oakingham
Hagshot
Sunning Hill
Duke’s Lodge
Realing
Windsor
London
Brice Fisher
Craig's Court
Charing-Cross
Crackenden
Surgeons Hall
SadJer
South Hill
R. Coleget
Ufe
Tivasler
N. B
Royal Hospitals
Elixir of Bardana Promised To Rebuild Health
An advertisement touts Barodan A. R. Hirt elixir as a cure for rheumatism and general debility. It claims restoring vigor after fits, preventing future fury, and easing long struggles. Sold by Baldwin in Paterson Row and Ridley in Bucketer, with directions and author signature.
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Barodan A. R. Hirt
Bardana
Baldwin
Patergofter-Row
Ridley
Bucketer
A Word to the Wing and a Plea on Weavers' Plight
Postscript letter to the Printer of the London Evening Post decries vast weavers' distress amid unemployment while silk imports surge. The author blames quality elites for preferring foreign silks and calls for urgent legislative action to ban such fabrics with penalties, asserting thirty thousand poor workers seek relief.
Saltpetre and English industry meet moral and material limits
A reader letter claims saltpetre, the key to gunpowder, proves English inability to produce it domestically. It argues nitre’s vital role in life and weaponry, cites Voltaire and Elizabethan self-sufficiency, and criticizes English merchants for lack of support to skilled workers, urging foreign help and national effort to master production.
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L— M
Nitre
Aristotle
Greece
Asistoile
England
India
Holland
Riffin
Roland
Voltaire
Monseigniori
Rome
Falt Peire
Europe
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Brunswick
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Prutlia
Ferdinand
Potsdam
Great Haue
Rotterdam
Derk Jacots
Dieppe
Goodwin Sands
Deal
Flanders
Blake
Ellison
Red-Lion-Street
Whitechapel
Per
Rath
Scarborough
Bristol
Burmont
Bourn
Larne
Harragare
Spaater
Tilbury
Shadwell Spa
Nevil Hole
Wiltshire Holr
Postscript
London Evening- Post
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