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Newspaper
Middlesex Middlesex Journal
Location
Middlesex, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jul 30, 1772
Page
4
Fragmentary lines describe love, beauty, and mythic imagery with references to Thetis Apollo and Shakespeare. The text presents disjointed phrases about day foe, crowns of grace, and a lyrical exploration of love’s power, ending with a fleeting note on “The Loves and Grates.”
In a letter to the Printer of the Middlesex Journal the writer presses the anti slavery cause, citing passages from a late History of Guinea. The extracts describe African kings selling captives for goods, brutal punishments, prison treatment of slaves, and the cargoing of naked captives aboard ships, urging reflection on the justice of the trade and the court case.
In a Middlesex Journal letter a correspondent describes cutting off a duck’s head in one blow and the body running six yards upright before dying. He asks readers to explain how muscular motion relates to will and brain, inviting discussion from correspondents.
An Extra from Dr Harwood on the Athanasian doctrine discusses Dr Clarke's beliefs and a Common prayer-book altered by Clarke to omit the Athanasian symbol. Dr Benson recalled presenting the amended book to Queen Caroline with hopes of reform, but Clarke’s alterations and the project were not realized by his death.
A well known Salisbury prelate is married to a younger lady of family and fire who ignores religious restraint. She once danced cotillons in her husband’s cathedral and later urged him to wear a Captain regimentals red coat for a joke. He tried, and the crowd hailed him Brigadier Moses after the tale leaked out.
Foreign mail confirms the French have left Mauritius and notes Count Rantzau’s departure for Ekernforde. Denmark plans magistracy reform, Danish bombardiers join marines, and Rear Admiral Westman dies in Sweden. Russia and Austria foresee broad consequences from reprisals near Poland amid rumors of a Ferrol fleet and a potential Duke of Richmond mission to Prussia.
A chaotic London column reports on General Wolfe’s monument inscription murmurs, Palliser’s Scarborough bid, and the heated politics of Rockingham and Granby. It also covers legal fee thefts near Chancery Lane, a Hamburgh trade insolvency, various ship arrivals, a fatal knife incident, a drowned horse rider rival, and a string of street crimes and mad dog fatalities in Newington.
To our correspondents a note requests ladies and gentlemen who provide intelligence for the Postscript to send favours by ten in the morality at the late? as increasing fare obliges us to put the paper to press sooner than hitherto.
A compact ledger style note lists bonds and securities with prices and yields. Entries include Bank 3 per cent, South Sea, India, Ind. Ann. 3-4ths, Navy and Victualling Bills, Long Ann Tickets, and various confiding and annuity notes with fractional values and dates.
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