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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Nov 26, 1771
Page
1
Royal escape narrative from Warsaw with King saved after capture by rebels and pursuit. Heroic rescue by Coccell’s troops, King restored to Castle amid thanksgiving and Te Deum. Reports detail other dispatches, appointments, burglaries, and assorted maritime and local notices from the period.
Reports from Warsaw, Dantzick, and Vienna detail Prussian detachments entering Lithuania and Little Poland while Russian garrisons retreat toward Petrikau. A 8006 ducat contribution ruined Olivia, with plague in Smyrna prompting Baltic caution. Vienna notes grain shipments, a large nine million florin loan, and efforts to lower money interest. Hamburgh reports Moscow distemper deaths falling to about seven hundred daily.
Yesterday both Houses met pursuant to the last prorogation and were prorogued by commission to January 214 for entering on business. The Gazette notes the House of Commons has fixed a new session in about 14 days from yesterday.
Dr E Barry of Bath attests to the merits of Royal Patent Elattic Truffes by Mr Brand for ruptures and hospital care at Greenwich. He notes some successes and others failing, praising Brand Blastic Trefes as easy to wear and well suited to relief of the disorder.
A writer warns of a seditionary scheme to raise a flame in the county after Sir John withdraws his pretensions. He suggests potential countermeasures to guard against a surprise if a poll is demanded at the election on November 23. This act could aid Mr Holt by signaling vigilance.
A reader rebukes a Tuesday letter accusing the Suffolk Freeholders of not attending the Stowmarket nomination. It defends Sir John Rous’s legacy, questions Holt’s ministerial ties, and praises Mr. Holt’s independence and patriotism while condemning the pamphleteer’s attack as misled and coarse rhetoric. The correspondence mocks the author’s political tactics and defends liberty and public virtue.
The plan fixed for opening the Pantheon is to be opened by subscription at six guineas per subscriber for twelve nights. No more than fifteen hundred tidbits per night, three nights weekly, starting Monday Jan 13. Each subscriber gets four tickets per night type, with rigid allocation and no post-distribution changes. The programme includes a grand instrumental concert with tea and refreshments, and a Master of the Ceremonies to maintain order. Subscriptions and tickets to be distributed by peeresses or their nominees only.
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