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Fragments of 18th Century Letters and Bath Tribute
A long letter from Son Do N Bah 1764 seeks a printing post and professorship with boasts of stellar observations and scandalous exploits. Bath town honors Lord Chief Justice Pratt, asking him to sit for a memorial portrait, and Pratt replies with thanks and assurances of justice. Parliament adjourns. international news reports naval build-ups, trade plans, and ship movements. Obituaries note painter Hogarth. crime and local misdeeds are sketched, including a hanging, assaults, and highway robbery thwarted. Business updates cover imports and exports, ship arrivals, and theater listings from Drury Lane and Covent Garden.
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Do N. Bah
Pratt
City of
Bath
Huis Mayetty
Westminster
France
Copenhagen
Denmark
Campeachy
Marine Corps
East Indies
Portsmouth
Marseilles
Gerrulda
Sallee
Mexico
Glasgow
Boston
Philadelphia
Elbe
Hamburgh
London
Laft
Leicester Square
Hogarth
Wandsworth