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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Oct 24, 1771
Page
1
Notice announces a session of Oyer and Terminer and Goal Delivery for offences on the High Seas within the Admiralty of England. It will be held Thursday November 7 at Justice Hall Old Bailey at eight in the morning. Printed by Stephens Madegon at Banbury Oxfordshire.
A London fragment recounts the Duke of Bedford confirming to Choiseul that India conquests must extend to the last English advance, prompting a stiff reply and a pivotal shift. The tale notes a pension for a Dutch connoisseur, a vast cargo value, and dispatches about ships, wrecks, charity dinners, trials, marriages, and obituaries observed in the period newspaper items.
In Modbury a young woman of about 22 was found dead hanging from an apple tree in an orchard, suspected poverty driven. In Rushien a fire during a storm destroyed several buildings and crops, with a child perishing in a barn blaze caused by children playing with fire. Dent drowned at Walshford Bridge while driving for Mr Rushforth, with his horse. Commentary targets judges Blizard and Jefferies and calls for impeachment amid accusations of corruption, bias, and hostility to legal liberties.
HI Deal sails for river and Jamaica with Dawes Brown for Jamaica James Montgomery for Virginia and Ceres Beefs for Pool while Endeavour Standlinch Johnson goes to Jamaica Howard Smith to New York William and Elizabeth Lander to Pool Elizabeth and Sarah Court to Weymouth and Industrry Oliver to Waterford wind SSW and remains with India Pilot Dawes Brown.
A London Evening Post letter reports Chief Justice Stephen Blizard of the Antigua Supreme Court rejected a verdict from the island jury. He claimed faults in the panel and declared he would not record the verdict, a move the writer brands a grave abuse of power. The piece notes the authority’s overreach as a striking example of judicial arrogance.
A twenty year old writer from the London Evening Pol reveals her view of public amusements and gallantry. She laments the lack of sprightly captains or gallant lieutenants while criticizing regiments at Chatham barracks for dull manners and penny quadrille. She recounts mistresses and officers preferring drink and German campaigns over chivalry, leaving her with a dull array of fellow in uniforms and a bob wig.
In the London Evening Post a fragmentary quip questions a reported intrusion on a letter by Cadogan or his ally. The poem hints that the speaker, who mocks the ass, misreads his own image in a glass, a scene later described as a jest or suspicion about the writer’s aim.
This notice advertises two volume 8vo edition of Varenius General Geography with Newton and Dr. Urin notes, copper plates, index, and numerous enhancements. It emphasizes geography as essential for youth and promotes the improved Latin work as the most thorough treatise on maps, globes, and related mathematics. Published by Hawes Clarke and Collins at Patternoster Row.
The President and Directors of this society announce a meeting at the Half Moon Tavern Gracechurch Street on Thursday next the 31st instant from seven to evening for admission of members of either sex Protestants and other affairs. Members aged fifty and over are entitled to fifty pounds per annum for life, with conditions for entrance ages forty and upwards and ten years of membership before entry. Printed admission terms available gratis at several taverns including Mr Berridge Great Titchfield Street and others. prospective members may consult Mr Merry at the Leadon Tavern Batholp Street for details.
Advertised medical volume lists 810 pages at price 11 shillings and 15 pence. The treatise covers general surgical care and methods. Surgeon to St Bartholo is referenced, indicating a 19th century medical publication.
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