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Newspaper
Middlesex Middlesex Journal
Location
Middlesex, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Mar 19, 1772
Page
4
The fragmented text describes a Whig play depicting Cato and Tory contempt. A wastrel lady in the audience supposedly weeps not, while the stage text hints at stoic indifference and moral commentary. The passage notes the poet’s account of tears and the crowd's reactions without graphic detail.
A long contested letter signed Justice appears in a Meddlesex Journal page, defending the Recorder and Sheriff actions at the Ferguson trial and challenging accusations of bias. The writer questions a previous charge, cites other witnesses, and notes that the court ordered inventory of plate to aid potential litigation.
Fragmented letters from Madrid describe confusion at court and dispatches to the Viceroys of Peru and Mexico, while House of Commons debates on the Royal Marriage Bill reveal partisan strains. Reports claim Spanish ships near Jamaica, Denmark’s queen in exile, and critics split into Jacobites, Republicans, and supporters of limited monarchy. A French grain export ban and European provisions crisis accompany fears of a new war between the Emperor and King of Prussia, with imperial forces moving toward the Austrian Netherlands.
A damaged OCR fragment offers limited readable items including names and places. The text is unclear but suggests scattered references to people and locations without a coherent event or outcome. Further restoration is needed to determine a specific news item or notice.
A garbled text fragment recounts costs and legalities, theatre critique, weather notes, executions, market deaths, shipping movements, and horse racing references. It mentions a Pantheon building cost, mock tragedys reception, frost in the north, a man found dead in Newgate market, a scavenger accident, a saleswoman's death, ships sailing for London, and Capt. Thompson taking command aboard Chatham.
Fragmentary stock list shows various bonds and bonds prices with notes such as per cent, 3 per cent, 4 per cent, Navy and Vicualling Bills, and long annuities. Mentions items like India and old annuities with percentages and fractions indicating trading quotes and holdings.
An advertisement seeks candidates for violin and musical instruction by French and Musick focal styles and Italian taste. It notes enquiries should be made at Ramsden, instrument maker, near the Little Theatre Haymarket. The advertiser seeks honorable positions such as secretary to a noble, or abroad as a companion, or to educate a youth in a respectable family or boarding school.
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