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Newspaper
Middlesex Middlesex Journal
Location
Middlesex, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Aug 01, 1772
Page
2
The piece surveys subscription for clergy and bishops, arguing for lifting parochial clergy from subscription while keeping bishops bound on elevation. It weaves in classical references on matrimony and equality, then critiques land monopolies and agrarian reform, urging balanced property distribution to boost national welfare.
Literary Chronicle cites a Republican view that many European nations suddenly dislike monarchies. It quotes a Magdebourg prison letter by a baron condemning Frederick King of Prussia as bloodthirsty and usurping, and noting the Emperor of Germany’s favorable reaction to the painter who depicted him.
Extracts reporting that Queen Caroline Matilda of Denmark celebrated a birthday with an opera in Hanover and that she has chosen Celle for winter residence. Other items note revolutions in Copenhagen affecting officials, a favourable harvest outlook in Dantzick, sugar crops in Jamaica, and various court and crime notices including a tithe case in Exchequer and pardons for highway robberies. Also mentions naval orders, earthquakes in France, and social curiosities from London.
On oath, a prisoner is charged with wilful murder at sea within the Admiralty of England jurisdiction. He allegedly killed Colen Watson, commander of a merchant schooner, belonging to the Venus, under master Thomas Goodwin, and fled with the vessel and its cargo.
The General Average is omitted as the public should make their own conclusions, with prices of each county separately stated, published by authority of Parliament. William Cooke.
A London reader praises a surgeon Mr Norton of Golden Square for curing his son of a severe scurvy and skin ulcers after two years. The letter requests publication to help others. The notice touts Marehant’s Drops, their claimed cures, ingredients, and a list of shops selling them in London and Greenwich.
A testimonial from March 25, 1772, claims six to seven bottles of Balsamic Tincture cured an inveterate scurvy. The author invites public testimony at No 64 Coleman Street and notes other medicines failed. Sold by Newsbury at St Paul’s Church Yard and by Dr No 3 Little Chapel Street Soho at 3s 6d per bottle. Gratis summary of vital symptoms offered.
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