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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Oct 13, 1772
Page
4
London Evening Port reports a damaged inscription found on a newly erected statue in a central square. The lines denounce vice, corruption, and foreign peril, praising virtue and law while condemning adulterers murderers fraud and depravity. The author signs as PHIYDIAS.
A letter from Kingston Up on Thames reports a heated exchange over abuses in the Ordnance service. The writer accuses General Conway of duplicity after promising an oath bound inquiry into Hartwell and Sir Charles Frederick’s network of contractors and storekeepers. He claims firings, restorations, and political maneuvering affected by Hartwell and Hartwell’s allies, with calls for reform and accountability.
Yesterday afternoon died the Rt. Hon. George Keppel Earl of Albemarle Viscount Bury Colonel of the 3d regiment of dragoons Governor of Jersey and a Knight of the Garter. Parliament will meet on the 26th next due to East India Company distress. The report notes ill health of the Earl of Chesterfield and discusses court politics and Livery reactions to the Lord Mayor election.
The public is informed that all tickets sold at Meif Wenham and Co's Office No 11 in the Poultry will be stamped on the back. J Wenham and Co and company invite holders of receipts for tickets or shares to exchange them at their convenience and to claim prize-money from former lotteries during office hours.
Fragmentary note mentions Agrestis and Academicus in upcoming matter with fast action implied. No clear event, date, or organization readable. summary concentrates on the two names and the prompt for quick placement.
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