Fragmented Mock History and Obscure Verses on Public Debates
A fragmentary, satirical reminiscence links abuses by corrupt directors to an ancient custom described in a foreign verse. It cites a story of a consul and crowd, then shifts to a poem about Islington death by hunger and public woes, noting high prices and the indignity of poor lives. The text blends editorial quip with literary allusion and a bleak lyric.
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Islington
A Lover of the Country
An ode in rustic cadence describes dawn in the country with daybreak scenes, workaday life, and simple pleasures. The speaker contemplates village labor, family care, and rural cheer before departing from Ivy Town seeking worldly fortune.
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Ivy Town
Entry of Lithuanian Confederacy in city reported
M r Grabowski led the confederacy of Lithuania into the city last Saturday at eleven in the morning and notified Commander in Chief of Russian Troops. He met General de Bock. Radzivil’s estates and dignities may be restored at the next Dyer. de Bock may travel to Silesia to greet the prince on departure from Saxony.
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Flanders
Wilda
Lithuania
Marthal Grabowski
de Nummers
M. Grabowski
Radzivil
de Bock
Silesia
Saxony
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Thorn
Slack
Staroit
Grabowski
Adam Bronikowski
M. Zaremba
Count de Forelli
Holy See
Primate
Copenhagen
Germany
Berlin
Prussia
Frederica - Charlotte - Ulrica-Catherine
Duke of
Brunswick
Henry
Prince Frederic of
Wilhelmina
Russia
Tcen
Sweden
Hilip Loth de Seers
Corps of Engineers
Theroth
Mary Elizabeth
Vienna
Maria-Josepha
Roffus
Barbary
Madrid
Don Francis Zepada
Montalvan
Paris
Cerruti
Gth
Amsterdam
John Graafland
College of Admiralty
Hague
Jacob-William de la Barlecour
Court of Holland
Leghorn
Paschal de Paoli
Minorca
Isles
Cyprus
Scio
Adriatick
Mediterranean
Quebec
Smithhield
Belfast
Prince of Wales East Indiatan
Downs
China
Robinhood
Butcher-Row
Temple-Bar
St. George's Church
Hanover Square
Charles Cope
Miss Bishop
Cecil Bishop
Boroughbridge
Yorkshire
John Williams
Wimple-street
Paulet
Brook-street
St. Bride’s
Gines
Lombard - Street
Wilmot
Bride’s Passage
Fleet-street
Hoddesdon
Thomas Wright
Covent Garden
Holbornhill
Carmlichter
Carman
Entreaties and receptions at court amid European notices
Reports from Copenhagen Berlin Vienna and Madrid detail royal audiences and gifts as well as proclamations on Jesuits and religious houses. Dispatches note births baptisms marriages and deaths among royalty nobles and envoys, with shipping, trade, and public notices interwoven through May reports across European capitals.
Introduction to Geometry praised by Clarifying Review
The Clarifical Review for April reviews a geometry treatise by William Paige Williams, noting it contains Euclid’s propositions plus others demonstrated in a concise plain method. It lauds elegance fluency and usefulness for learners seeking geometry without a master.
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T. Payne
Mews Gate
Mattes
St. Martin’s Lane
M. Hingestodj
Euclid
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