London Evening Post in London, Middlesex

Public discontent and famine price riots ripple through city

Letters lament government excess and private luxury fueling public hardship. The text describes rising corn prices, bread shortages, and mobs clashing with butchers. It notes officials seeking to curb profusion and promote economy under a virtuous regime. Reports from Warsaw, Copenhagen, Paris detail royal attention to law, finance, and order. Shocks in Vienna and tremors in Paris are reported alongside edicts on land cultivation and public policy. A later column covers church destruction, casualties, and legal appointments following a devastating event in St. James parish.