Remarks on the Pictures at the Exhibition of the Society of ArTists
An antiquated note recounts Ovid's tale of Nessus and Deianira from the Nessus myth retold with Hercules. The centaur Nessus lures Deianira, is slain by Hercules, and his blood coats a cloak that leads to tragedy. The piece cites verse where Nessus warns and Achilles-like deeds unfold amid river dangers.
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Middlesex Journal
Society of ArTists of Great Britain
Storm
Nessus
Dejanira
Ovin
Mr. Jones
Vesus
Oeneus
Étolia
Hercules
Evens
Dejaxira
Nefus
Nefas
Deianira
Neus
Ovid
Daughters Bought With Titles In Scandalous Match Plot
A letter to the printer reveals a society tale of a young lady offered an Irish peerage by Giddy El-z’s daughter’s possible suitor. The mother-in-law figure promotes the union, press ads claim the grand advantage, and the suitor abandons Miss Ent for Mills Law, daughter of the Bishop of Carlisle, who has little fortune or peerage prospects.
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El—z
R—mb—ld
East Indies
En—T
Mr. Ambid
R—mbold
Elli T
Mills Law
Carlisle
Painter of the Middlesex Journal and Lord Mayor clash
The document criticizes an advertisement by the Lord Mayor blaming bread prices for insults on Easter Tuesday. It questions whether the cost of the ad is paid by the Lord Mayor personally or by the City Chamber. It argues royal matters concern the nation, not just the city, and cites the line Quicquid delirant reges, plectuntur Achivi.
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Chamber of London
Public mockery of royal marriage notices in Middlesex Journal
A letter to printers ridicules a rumor about Duke of Gloucester and Duke of Cumberland marriages being notified at court on the next birthday. The writer condemns sensational headlines as foolish and imprudent, arguing the king should avoid such public missteps and not act like a madman by sanctioning the notices.
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Gloucester
Cumberland
Letter Reveals Dowager Queen's Opposition to Danish Changes
In a 1771 Hamburg correspondence a Barons de Bulow member laments the Danish royal family turmoil. He predicts shocks across Europe, condemns the Dowager for ambition, and warns of clergy and military manipulation while praising retirement away from the storm. The letter notes the king’s weakness and Frederic’s undoing.
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Denmark
de Bulow
Bernief
Hamburgh
Barow
Europe
Fuliana
Frederic
A Hamburgh
London Cabinet considers Irish dispatches at St James
This morning a Cabinet council met at St James's to discuss last night's despatches from Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. An express reached St James's from Lord Grantham in Madrid. Continental politicians forecast the Ruffia Porte truce will not yield peace and fear a triple alliance forming to divide Europe.
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London
St. James’s
Ireland
Lord Grantham
Madrid
Continent
Ruffia
Porte
Germany
Emperor
Prefsia
English Parliament and Royal Court Gossip and Local Incidents
A sprawling London century fragment notes the Prussian envoy’s return to Berlin, the Restoration anniversary, and court intrigues. It mentions Duke Cumberland’s imminent court appearance, debts of Princess Dowager of Wales’s administrator, and curious foreign marriage contracts signed by the French king. Reports of bread shortages across Europe, the Newport engrosser riot, and multiple accidental deaths fill the page, alongside Island and colonial notices, troop movements to Gibraltar, and fresh arrivals from Europe.
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Poland
Berlin
Houses of Lords and Commons
Thomas Bradshaw
Great Britain
Duke of Cumberland
Kew
Dowager of Wales
Versailles
France
England
Holland
Cat
Newport
Flanders
Europe
Charles Town
Commons House of Assembly
Peter Manigault
Gibraltar
Hackney
Thames Street
Rotherhithe
Mr. Dorrington
London
Bishopsgate-Streec
Mrs. Gardner
Mr. Gardner
Nortonfalgate
Portsmouth
Bergh
Frederickshall
Eagie
Betsey
Stanfell
South Carolina
Dutton
Welton
Hayling
Lawford
Fareham
Pye
Plymouth
Henrietta
Harding
Ashling
Stride
Liverpool
Sailed the St Andrew and other vessels to various ports
A fragmented listing names several ships including the St Andrew Mekgellrvrey Polly Hamlen and Friends Goodwill as they sail for London Amity s Adjanation Pennock for Newcastles New Intent Marshall and Nelly Dack and Bribe hant Langridge for Sunderland and Ebenezer Dah for Frederick Stade.
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St. Andrew
Mekgellrvrey
Polly
Hamlen
Friends
Carter
Bewley
Jarvis
London
Amity
Pennock
To Our CORRESPONDENTS Casca Pusnius and Candor
The brief note records names Casca Pusnius and Candor as correspondents greeted by the writer.
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Casca
Pusnius
Candor
Stocks and shares report from the day’s trading
An OCR fragment lists varied stock prices and classes with terms like Bank, 15 3 per Cent, 87 3 half, India, Long Ann, and Bones, featuring bid prices such as 150 1 4th and 218 to 224, plus a note on scalping and a price of 153s 6d for a stake in Scalbing Gri.
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S. S
India
Encraving of the Dutchess of Cumberland in Lady's Magazine
John Wheeler announces a premium engraving of Her Royal Highness the Dutchess of Cumberland from an original painting by Mails Read. Two copper plates will be used to produce four thousand impressions each, priced at half a crown, with subscriptions open at several London locations before June fifth.
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Cumberland
Miss Read
Haru
Lady’s Magazine
England
Luttrell
J. Wheble
Ireland
America
Lady's Magazine
Hall
the Dutchess of Cumberland
Mails
John Wheele
Riley
Curzon-street
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Old Gravel Lane
Ratcliff Highway
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