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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Oct 10, 1778
Page
3
October notices record windward sailings and arrivals. Ships listed include Buffalo Janus Hinde and others from Archangel Petersburgh Charante Nevis Cork and Liverpool. Endeavour Hooper Dreadnought Vanfen Fountanna Regina and more report at Portsmouth Hamburg and ditto locations.
The Royal Family will reside at Windsor for three days weekly this month then move to Kew before winter. Orders to finish all St James's and Queen's Palace apartments by the 25th, anniversary of the king's accession. Reports include Hamburg magistrates forbidding Prussian recruits, prize ships from Petersburgh, and updates on paroled officers and local troop movements.
Prices listed for CORN per quarter and various grains and goods show Wheat at 328 to 36s od, Barley 209 to 239 od, Rye 225 to 245 od, Oats 143 to 18s od, Pale Malt 26s to 32s Od, Brown Malt 25s to 30s 80d, Pease 34s to 37s od, Hogditto 29 to 31s 5d yesterday at Bear-Key, Beans 26s to 28s od, Tick 22s to 24s od, Tares 26d to 32s 8d, Rape Seed per Sack, Fine Flour 32s 3d, Second Sort 29s 3d, Third Sort 26s 3d.
A report from Warley Common details General Pearson inspecting the lint before a royal review. Army units drill and readiness steps are outlined with a royal marquee erected on a hill near the 6th regiment for the expected visit.
Ireland Dublin notice reports on Monday when the Lord Mayor, Sheriffs, and Town-Clerk presented the Earl of Aldborough with the freedom of the city. His lordship replied with thanks, emphasising duty to country, independence, and avoidance of sinecures, pledging prudent action and best intentions.
An advertisement states John Hamilton of London promotes his medicines sold wholesale or retail via Wray, proprietor of Tellrigs a Baila in Cornhill. Purchasers are urged to demand a bill per parcel and compare seals to avoid counterfeit products.
A notice seeks a head master for the Free Grammar School at Leeds in Yorks. The meeting for election is at the King's Arms on Wednesday the 4th of November at four in the afternoon. Salary is 120 guineas yearly with a possible 40 guinea gratuity. Applicants must be Cambridge or Oxford graduates and may provide testimonials from reputable teachers.
A postcard poem from a Worcestershire correspondent letters about a dream vision of an aged Socrates teaching virtue and philosophy, urging the reader to seek peace and love amid civil strife. The piece blends classical settings of Athens and Rome with a call to modest living, virtue, and humility in the face of political corruption.
A historical notice argues against double thefts by carts as streets are too narrow. It urges trial refusal to drive in formation, preferring a behind the shoulder harness pass and avoiding drawing above axle level. It condemns ditching or concave wheel design as ignorant and wasteful to thousands of horses. The author suggests a curricle style cart with horses abreast as a better setup than current three horse teams.
In the London Evening Post discussion on Thames excavation the piece argues for funding to provide six pence per ton to those landing gravel and for Parliament to pay lightermen. It urges proper engineers to supervise ballast sinking and notes three departments govern the river while roads near London should be supplied year round for eventual navigation improvement.
A reader laments high prices and artificial scarcity in bread meat and other goods caused by monopolists and profiteers. He urges Parliament to curb price gouging, warns of divine punishment for oppressors, and supports honest enforcement measures to restore fair costs.
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