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13 Nov 1766

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London Evening Post

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London, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Date

Nov 13, 1766

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3

Grand Drawings and Political Debates Dominate London News

A large drawing room is ordered at Carleton-touse by the Princess Dowager of Wales with elegant garden decorations and a grand terrace fronting St James's Park. Amid courtly circles, the Duke of Fitz James hosts a major entertain ment in Suffolk Street as Sugar Planters and West India merchants push for protection against distillery prohibitions. The East India Company court debates parliamentary remedies, while naval appointments, church promotions, and local obituaries fill the week’s notices.

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Carleton-touse Princess Dowager of Wales St. James’s Park Duke of Fitz‘James Duke of Berwick James II Arabella Churchill John Duke of Marlborough Suffolk Street Charingcross West India England Merchant-Taylors Hall East India Company Bengal George Dempster James Hedges James Dempster George Culebroke Likewife Fine Die James Hodges Aaron Franks Joseph Salvador John Nath George Colebroke Col. Johnson Crab Boulton Thomas Rouse Wellborne J. Steward A. Ramsay P. Cuft East Indies Society For Promoting Christian Knowledge Trichinopoy Madueri the Admiralty George Jackson Charles Fearne Navy Daniel Stowe Ifg His Majesty’s Navy Jackson Bihop Litchfield Coventry Weldland St. Paul John Buckner Clarehall Cambridge Duke of Richmond Southwick Neominster Sussex Chishester William Gretton Perehouse College Guaplain Earl of Portsmouth Vigarage Saffron Walden Littlebucys Impegounty Essex Diocese of Lens
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Wright Defeats Excise in Long Distillery Case at Barons

After twelve hours of trial the jury returned a general verdict for Mr. Wright the Whitefriars distiller in an excise penalties case amounting to 18 500 pounds. Crown counsel included the Attorney and Solicitor Generals, while Fletcher Norton led for Wright with Serjeant Glynn and Dunning among his team. Also reports note a Bermuda comet sighting, Galugh Fork apoplexy rumors, arrivals of English journeymen artisans in Dublin, corn prices at Bear-key, and many Edinburgh citable notes.

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Nloyod Barons of the Exchequer Commissioners of Excise Wright Council For the Crown S. E Mivaresserters Rome Galuigh Dublios Bear-key Berwick Tweed Scouland Man Edinburgh Ooubead
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Postscript Letter Critiques Luxury Fueling Poverty in Parliament

ANGLICUS argues Parliament must act to curb luxury and corruption to relieve widespread hardship. The letter blames ministers and recurring parliaments for price inflation, high rents, and scarce provisions, urging restoration of the People’s welfare and reform of the political order.

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London Pott Mr. Mergs Robert
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Causes of dear provisions in London letters

A letter to the printer argues that high national debt and taxes, luxury, metropolitan growth, and consolidation of small farms into large ones drive rising provisions. It urges tax reform, restraint on city expansion, and careful landholding changes to halt depopulation and soaring prices. It cites tightening luxury laws and rebalancing tax toward luxuries over essentials.

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