Public road improvements urged for ballast use and drainage
A Parliamentary speech urges better road care through time, diligence, and smarter ballast use. It notes 20 miles of roads show great improvements yet suffer in winter due to ballast scarcity and proposes removing buried stones, convex shaping, and targeted ballast placement to save material and improve drainage and durability.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A Sousa
Istxovon Trust
Peng
Hampstead
Highgate-hill
Highgate
Wapsons, &T
Black Dog
Three Hats
Iling
Ballatt
Finidus
Becketts Statue At Guildhall Draws Wit And Whimsy
In a July 1772 letter from Tottenham, Brass Crosby is urged to justify a nine to ten foot marble statue of William Beckford at Guildhall. The author questions the height, the carving style, and the incongruity with Beckford’s known six foot stature, calling the statue large and awkward.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brass
Misashi Ruth
Guildhall
William Beckford
William
Gog
Magog
Patagog
George the Third
Beckford
To the Printer of the Middlesex Journal
S18s. Pe HE incontinency, of women, at the present time, is certainly one great reason why so many men are to be found who lead a single life. Celibacy is in no country so frequent as in ours.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilkes
Cirencester
Gloucestershire
Lincoln’s-Inn-hall
Wimbledon Common
Jones
Board of Ordnance
Sir John Fielding
Captain Jones
Capt. Jones
Customs
Drury-lane
Cavendish Square
King’s Yard
Deptford
Reavers
Mill-street
Southweark
Peckham Gap
Birks
Old Bailey
Bow-treer
High Holtom
Blackman-street
Southwark
Wandworth
Society of the West, India Merchants
Thames-street
London Bridge
John Eden
Messrs. Curtins and Co
Marriage views and fashion in the present age
The author denounces fashionable extravagance and male hairdressers as factors diminishing modesty. They advocate practical marriages with amiable partners, urge women to work in dress services, and praise a few sensible ladies. The piece laments frivolity, calls for virtuous unions, and warns against public vanity.
Memorial of Captains in the Army 1772 Petition
The memorialists appeal to the king regarding captain counts in 1760 and seek rank from first commissions or brevet promotion to major. They note forty captains listed as majors in 1760 but only thirty-three captains born from 1756 to 1760 are counted, excluding guards. They urge royal consideration and pledge fidelity.
Princess Amelia to visit Denmark and learn fate of revolution
London reports say Princess Amelia plans to visit the Queen of Denmark to hear from her own mouth the true fate of the Danish revolution, as a step toward the Danish monarch's return to Britain. The piece notes Cumberland's punctual payments to servants and hints at royal succession intrigues involving the Duke of Gloucester.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
St. James’s
Amelia
Denmark
Duke of Cumberland
Cumberland
Duke of Gloucester
Paris
L’abbe Rocquene
Brest
House of Glyn
Hallifax
Wilkes
Stephen
Middlesex
England
Murky London Letters Include Trials and Robberies
A long column reports on a Lord Chancellor misstatement, Captain Jones trial implications, and assorted courtroom notices. It notes a Welch Fusileers march, midwifery debates, and the perils of Greenwich to Kingston patrols. Also covered are customs overreach, a Drury Lane gossip hub, pickpocket raids near Horse Guards, and a fatal Thames drowning.
Thoughts on Executions at Tyburn and The Dying Indian
The correspondence announces the Invocation fong as unsuitable for the Middlesex Journal while affirming the paper’s devotion to the Patriot and his friends. It notes Thoughts on Executions at Tyburn and The Dying Indian as part of the next offerings and mentions a frequenter of the Royal Exchange.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Middlesex Journal
Tyburn
Royal Exchange
Stocks and bonds listing notes and prices
Stock prices and bond quotations including Bank at 148 3 4, 2 per cent red, South Sea, India and Navy bills. References to S S Ann and Tad Ann with percentages and days, plus bonds from 433 to 435 and tickets at 42s 16s.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Sea
S. S. Ann
Navy
Also Mentioned on This Page
Brass Crosby
The
Middlesex: Journal
Ary
Postscript
David Garrick
King's Bench
Rafoisat
J. Wheble
Adelphy
ter-Rowe
Edward Wright
Wych-street
Butcher-Row
Temple-Sar
Coniac
Jamaica
Ras
Heart's Ease
Lisbon
Mountain
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