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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Nov 28, 1772
Page
4
A petition to your Honour urges relief for a starving, crowded population facing famine and rising prices. The writer links high rents and pasture conversion to scarce bread, pleading Parliament to curb enclosures and spare the poor from beggary, theft, and ruin.
The Printer of the London Evening Post urges Justices of the Peace to curb alehouses in towns villages and obscure lanes stating they serve thieves and disorder. He argues licensing bodies should ignore brewer pressure and close or restrict illegitimate houses to reduce drunkenness and crimes. St Albans Nov 28.
A fragmentary London Evening Post item notes Townshend returning from Terne’s shore as mentions of Hibernicus and lines about immortality and glory appear in a cryptic, era-tinged journal snippet. The text blends literary allusions with incomplete phrases.
An advert in the public press asks a clergyman of London about self charges and the alleged commission of an indictable crime. It questions whether he supported himself to be charged and if he prosecuted the author of a pamphlet titled Lovavin the Suds, and whether that prosecution was withdrawn. The notice seeks his direct answer to satisfy a curious public.
The paper reports Charles Fox poised to replace Jenkinson as Vice Treasurer of Ireland with a Christmas take, amid shifts linked to Lord Edgecumbe and Lord Litchfield. A surge of ministerial language follows as Mr. Fitzpatrick and Dr. Burrell attack foreign policy, while the House debates a duty-free grain import bill and a cheese export prohibition. Extra letters describe Berlin winter measures and storm damages, with local crime, ship arrivals, and lottery notes filling the rest of the issue.
The Commons debated a supply to the Crown and passed a motion to grant it. A committee of the whole considered the bill for free importation of wheat flour India corn pease from America and other grains from Europe Africa. Naturalization oaths for Emeric Vida Abraham Favene Philip Rivier. Various bills read and noted, committee reports received, and thirteen members chosen for a secret committee.
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