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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Oct 07, 1777
Page
4
A dated political letter denounces war funding and soldier pay issues. It laments mercenary costs, urges better pay to maintain discipline, and criticizes ministers for taxing and mismanaging finances. It warns of national ruin from costly campaigns and commercial harm. CARADOC quotes and a Wimbledon scene conclude with mockery of royal reception.
A fragment from the London Evening Post recounts a short story about popularity versus favor, noting a royal review given by the King years ago and drawing a lesson from the crowd’s reaction. The text emphasizes the ease of despising popularity compared to gaining it and hints at a measured moral.
A quirky fragmented stage piece presents characters like Ansque, Dick Ruccepsour, Boreas, Minven, and Mark Taylor debating war wealth and virtue. Recitatives and songs mix political satire with personal ambition, ending as Tom Flumsty enters amid shifting loyalties and royalist rhetoric.
A torn fragment from a humorous political scene describes cautious speakers and alarm, a dissolution question, and a council in session. It notes arrests by a bailiff, lost fashions, and a character named Flimsey sinking into despondency, but legibility fails mid-sentence.
Postscript reports a large cargo of timber owned by Mr Hoene a traveling merchant arriving at Chesapeake Bay after a costly voyage with substantial ware and tare. Part of the goods had been purchased at considerable expense in several German markets.
Intelligence notes propose Campbell Academy students form a corps militaire to be offered by their own body upon merit. They may join Highlanders or Savage troops under General Burgoyne, avoiding Guards due to fear of head knocks. Troops to endure Spartan discipline with cheap sustenance from farmers and hedges.
An old fashionable man recalls earlier visitors to St James's drawing-room and compares them with the current attendees. He notes the old crowd arrived calmly from carriages, ascending the stairs with ease and pleasing both foreigners and natives, while modern attendees hurry from carriages as if fleeing bailiffs, fostering a poor impression of their purpose.
The fragment presents epigrammatic lines on wealth, truth, and charity. It contrasts honest speech with deception, mocks miserliness, and posits that riches are judged by enjoyment rather than hoarded for heirs. The terse verses imply moral reflections on wealth and ownership.
A London letter lampoons a figure called Yord L as a non diplomat yet given a commission. It notes a new house near Christchurch and conjectures about asylum for Feferies. Extra items report ships at Spithead, drought in Cape Verde, arrivals at Chelsea Hospital, Lully anecdotes, new naval captaincies, local offices, fair prices, and recent marriages and deaths.
The dated list records stock prices and financial instruments with entries for South Sea Old Annuities New Annuities Indian Bonds and navy or victualling bills. It notes several par values and percentages including four percent bonds and long annuities with prices around 14 pounds 6s 6d for lottery tickets and scrip at 96 1 half.
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