Poverty and elegance clash on Edinburgh streets
Sept 10 1764 readers glimpse a letter lamenting urban glamor as new pavement and luxury rise. a poor fruit vendor is forced into dangerous roadside work while officials note housing, street improvements, and renewed calls to protect the urban poor. references to roman liberty contrast with modern deprivation. SCOTLAND Edinburgh Sept 8 reports trials for child murder and banishments for life, amid country notices and port news.
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London News and Budget Speculations Abroad
Lord Northumberland and his Countesy visit the Lord Chancellor at the Grange before continuing to Bath. The Earl of Middlesex leaves Arlington-street for Knowle in Kent. Foreign prints discuss England's rising year funds with the Land tax at 4s in the pound totaling two million and Malt tax at 75 percent. The Sinking Fund may reach about three million, leaving one million two hundred fifty thousand pounds to be raised by loan.
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Duke of Dorset
Knowle
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