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Newspaper
Middlesex Middlesex Journal
Location
Middlesex, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
May 24, 1770
Page
2
Fragments describe Constantinople and Porte affairs with interpreters and peace talks, Dublin letters noting quiet island conditions, and London scenes with Lord Mayor processions, troop deployments, and political maneuvering. Reports include crimes, fires, smuggling, court cases, and society notices amid a broad cross-section of late 18th century bustle.
York May 22 reports say two smuggling vessels on the Yorkshire coast were seized. 173 half anchors of Geneva were taken by Henry Radley and the Experi ment cutter. T. Armstrong, commander of the Charlotte cutter, led the seizure. A meeting of the commissioners noted improvements to the river Ouse and ordered immediate notice for paying off bond debts, with further tonnage reductions under review. Mrs Lawson of Moorby died aged many years. A resident of Wigan is said to be 138 with a son 104 and a cooper father still at work. The York contractor launched a new ship, the Knaresborough, in breezy river weather.
This item announces Paine’s Warehouse at 67 Holborn North Side between Red-Lion Street and Featherstone Buildings offering a large stock of freth-rade goods from JERSIA Wilton Kidderminster and Scots Carpets of new patterns. Feather beds ready for use, varied bedsteads, fine cottons and linens, blankets and quilts, with carpetting on display. Bed ticks and counterpanes for sea or land. N B rooms covered with Wilton and Scots carpetting. Paine guarantees fair terms to win continued patronage.
In the Monthly Review account the Letters are praised for entertainment and observation by a gentleman author. The reviewer asserts the works enable travellers to tour France without help, covering every item a meticulous enquirer would need and guarding against imposture.
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