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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
May 27, 1762
Page
3
An extensive wartime dispatch details secret winter expeditions to Constantinople, sieges near Vienna, and reconstructions of several campaigns. It notes detachments of 600,000 to 700,000 men reaching the city, with captured cannons and treasury spoils, plus plans for a larger advance under Baron Penkler, and outlines shifting diplomatic alignments among Prussia, Denmark, and the Saxon territories alongside naval movements and embargoes.
A Church of England reader argues that the Convocation of the Clergy has become mere form since the Hanoverian accession. He claims England needs enforceable authority and asks why Scotland retains rights while England does not. He pleads for equal regard for English church rights and asserts the necessity of order.
A fragmentary poem celebrating spring’s renewal with lush rural imagery and birdsong. The verse praises verdure, blossoms, and mild weather, then shifts to reflections on life’s passage and fate, citing a Latin aphorism about life as a theatre.
Letters from the Hague report hopes France will press a neutral stance for the Republic. Petersburgh dispatches praise the czar’s edicts aiding trade and farming. Vienna notes boast of Saxon aid against Prussia, while regard for Russian auxiliaries fades. Constantinople cites Porter’s voyage home. Lippe-Buckeburgh may lose field command to Master of the Ordnance as Charles I’s restoration is celebrated at court. The Lord Mayor and officials attend the festival with Tower guns firing at noon.
The passage argues that true happiness comes from virtue and conscience, not envy or public praise. It distinguishes between public notoriety and personal fulfillment, noting fame depends on action rather than appearance and lasts only with posterity. It cites Epictetus and Pope, urging self-guided moral living over worldly ambition.
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