English Gardener Opposed by Scotch Laborers in Subminister’s Service
A letter to the Printer of the London Evening Post complains about Scotch gardeners and officials dominating English households. Hortulanus argues Scots favor subordination, notes a subminister with Scots in his employ, estimates ten thousand Scots gardeners in the country, and asks what English must do to avoid emigration or starvation.
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Lord B
Mr. Chu
Hortulanus
P. S
Where the World Proves a God Through Nature and Heaven
The poem urges the reader to observe the earthly and celestial realms from pole to pole and through Neptune’s domains. It argues that the orderly arrangement of planets, skies, and time implies an architect divine, challenging atheism by prompting reflection on creation, nature, and the heavens.
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Earth
Neptune
Cynthia
Publicty of a Carshalton incident with a hunting dog death
An eyewitness describes a Sunday event in Carshalton Surrey where a countryman’s dog, a Newfoundland, chased a man on the public road. A Scawen family German butler fired on the dog, killing it and leaving the master without redress for perceived cruelty.
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Carshalton
Surry
Epsom 3
Scawen
Death of Mr. D of G Thou! A Victorian lament in verse
A London Evening Post obituary in verse honors a man described as virtuous and benevolent. It praises his care for the poor, his wisdom, and acceptance of life’s pains, noting his death and the solace he brought to others before passing to join the divine.
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The
London Evening Post
Louis Loquy
Caribalton
Memento
Lost Spirit of Orv Enchan Sparks National Urgency
A fragment urges recovery of a vanished Spirit of Orv Enchan lost across Atlanta or by a Scotchmag owner. The plea promises national salvation from ruin and elevates the finder to high esteem and power, urging anyone with a method to recover it to come forward.
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Atlanta
Orv
Wanted Immediately A Master of Numbers for Embezzlement
An 18th century notice seeks a skilled accountant able to craft perplexing ledgers to conceal shortages in four to five million sums. The successful applicant would be paid with letter tickets at Boreas's head near the Treasury and must apply a month before Parliament meets.
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Boreas
News in Briefs from Europe and Asia
Postscript notes mails arriving from Holland and Flanders. Toulon ships receive daily provisions so departure is not delayed. Vienna reports Russia and the Porte at war preparations with ongoing negotiations. Paris reports the Duke de Chartres nearly died from iced wine but survived after bleeding.
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Toulon
Vienna
Russia
Porte
Paris
Duke de Chartres
Private marriages spark critique of aristocratic unions
London notes decry the aristo marriage market. A noble Earl to wed a virtuous young woman is praised for private virtue while complaints rise over wealth driven matches, family pride, and the erosion of genuine affection. An amiable Marquis, misled by family ambition, laments lost happiness and contemplates separation.
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C. S
Charles
Entertaining Spa Society Turmoil and Royal Allegiances
Irish and English nobles mix at Spa this season, with Duke of Gloucester’s children amid royal entertainments. Fortunes rise and fall as celebrated guests and factions clash, while Cadiz and Jamaica news reach Britain. Port and Deal letters report ships, prizes, and a Portsmouth scandal unfolds alongside legal trials and a lottery advertisement frenzy.
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Spa
St. Jamies’s
Anne
Henry
Elizabeth
Duke of Gloucester
Cadiz
Lanaftee
Greenock
Tat Port
Jamaica
England
Geneva
Voltair
Montreal
Portsmouth
Waaklamheyd, Towe
Dantzick
Ann and
Margaretta
Hanson
Longfound
Charlotte
Beeble
Hamburgh
Isabella
Davis
Cork
Prince George
Orwin
Newcastle
Charming Molly
Crowte
Plymouth
Providence
Morey
Tenby
Spithead
Weymouth
St. Helens
Cambridgeshire harvest and market reports from old notices
Readable fragments report Cambridgeshire harvest activity. Prices for wheat in Cambridge last Saturday ranged 2 pounds 78 shillings to 29 shillings per load of five bushels. Hops in the Borough quoted from 56s to 38s per hundred. A miller in Baton Socon lost a horse and two pebbles found in its abdomen weighed 31 and 21 ounces respectively. A laborer fell from scaffolding into Fleet Ditch, bruised and hospitalised. Capt. John Jackson of the Guards died aged 30 at Cannonbury House Islington. Mr John Spendelow, button-maker, died at Fether-lane apartments.
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Cambridgeshire
C Bridge
Day
Bedfordshire
Fleet Ditch
John Jackson
Guards
Cannonbury House
Islington
John Spendelow
New-street
Fether-lane
Admiralty Laments Loss of Repulse and Crew
The Public and distressed many regret to hear from the Admiralty that there is no authentic account of the Repulse frigate under Captain Daws being lost at sea and all perishing.
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Admiralty
Daws
Prices of Stocks and Annuities in 18th Century Notes
A compact listing of stock prices and financial instruments including Bank stock, India bonds, South Sea and old and new annuities, Consols, and Navy and victualling bills. Values shown in terms such as per cent, thirds, and long annuities with references to various years like 1758, 1653, and 1763. Also mentions shore annuities, scrip, and extenuating notations on reductions and conversions.
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India
South Sea
Dicto
Dpisco
Consol
Pr. Navy
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London
Postscript
Holland
Flanders
Deal
Huzza
Downs
Trident
Mary
Muir
Oporto
Willliam Gibson
Old Bailey
John Collier
Thomas Downs
Cutler
Bradley
Mortis Geary
John Riley
Catherine Reives
Mary Evins
John Boldero
Barnston
Snaith
Carter
John Sharman
Public Ledger
R. and
J. Johnson
Pope’s Head Alley
Cornhill
Royal Exchange
N.B
Messrs, Horsley, and Son
Bridges-street
Covent-Garden
Hazard and Co
Great Britain
Charles Fox
Countess of Derby
Oaks
Pearce
Fleet-street
Duke of Dorset
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