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Newspaper
Middlesex Middlesex Journal
Location
Middlesex, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Aug 11, 1770
Page
4
A garbled OCR fragment presents a phrase about the brave girls of Old England and a protectress figure, with references to science or arts and a daughter. The text is incomprehensible as a coherent article and yields no clear event or reporting.
A proposed society of noblemen and gentlemen would fund premiums to artists for modelling drawing and related arts. Named patrons include The King's premium for an administration model, Duke of Cumberland for an alphabet table, and several other nobles for art and political allegory through competitions and displays.
The letter discusses Holland's premium to enable a settlement of public satisfaction and to win favor with the public. It also mentions Norton’s premium to faculty members capable of inflicting harm, a premium for mastery in the art of witchcraft, and a further premium to supply matter to bolster a defendant’s case. The writer asks the printer to insert these in the paper.
Long London column notes Ambassador from the Ottoman Porte arriving with dispatches for the Court and returning after delivering them. It discusses a new Lord Chancellor, potential retirements, and British naval preparations including ships laid down at Chatham and plans for two wet and dry docks in Leith and the Firth of Murray.
The readable fragments describe a gun ship event with references to heads arriving and a person named Edgar. The text is incomplete and lacks clear actions, dates, places, or organizations to confirm details.
The reader provides a garbled note mentioning a writer of letters signed et and references to old papers and reprint interests. The fragment alludes to an interjected bridge building issue and a suspect unsigned account, with unclear meaning and attribution. No coherent event or persons are clearly defined in the readable text.
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