Liberty and Vice at Court a Poem Fragments
A fragmentary Victorian era verse piece laments women’s social judgment and male hypocrisy. The speaker, unnamed, denounces poverty and degradation while detailing quarrels at court, wit, and commerce, ending with notices of publications and literary items in The Middlesex Journal May 26.
Mixed London and overseas dispatches brighten midweek tabloid
A long weekly update reports arrivals at the Admiralty office and messages from commanders in chief in the Windward and Leeward Islands. It notes society events, court news, petitions from Middlesex, planning for public assemblies, and political maneuverings. Reports touch on Cardinal conclave rumors, fleet movements from Denmark, and local incidents including thefts, a street brawl over a North Briton, and a glassmaker’s apprentice death.
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James's
Halpden
William Henry Lyttleton
Portugal
Office of
Admiralty
Charing-cross
Windward
Leeward Island
West Indies
Oss Earl of Abington
Ryecot
Itfordshire
Lord Gower
Whitehall
Lord Lyttleton
Privy Council
Bab
Leveson
Earl of Gower
Mary Hume
Warwick-street
Golden Square
Duke of Bolton
James Lowther
Middlesex
England
St. James’s
Bread-street
St.Thomas’s Day
Walpole Eyre
Livery of
London
Michael Lovel
Rome
Orsinal
Rezzonico
de Bernis
de Luynes
Surprize
Albani
Cardinal de Bernis
Constantinople
Buck
Baidy
Leghorn
Gene Paoli
Jamaica
New England
Havana
C.i
Pale
Denmark
Stockholm
France
Czarina
Fertlémerita
East-Indies
Aldersgate
Street
Deputy Paterson
Wiliam Blunt
Matthew Featherstone
Royal Academy
Pall-mall
Dance
Stratford
Scotland
Coffe House
Temple-bar
Wildman
Green Park
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The
Middlesex Journal
Fell
Vasily
Liberty
Great Britain
Johnson
Miss Minifie
Flatfrd Abbey
T. Durham
Charing-crof
G. Kearsley
Tudgate-Sereet
S. Bludon
Puter-nufter-Row
F. Blyth
Cornhill
Tad
Rolert Covelle
Voltaire
Syren
Titsdy
John Bell
Hawkesworth
John Bes
Zytters
Russia
Baltic
Caspian
Francis Count Algarotti
Newberry
J. Fletcher and Co
St. Paul’s Church
Yard
W. Owen
Temple Bar
G. Woodfall
Charing
St. ‘James's Pen
Ngland
Kingdom
Principality of Wales
Wales
Prp Russell
Alex
Owen Price
Adlard and Browne
Fleet Sweet
Bladon
William Deering
Newport-street
Long Acre
Paine
Holbourn
Featherstone
EASJA
Wilton
Kidderminster
Cheney
M. Thomas Carter
Fleet-Street
N.B
Eader
J. H. Smyth
M.D
Bookfeller
Pater-nofter-Row
Perry
the Star
Lombard-street
Pridden
Brown
Shoelane
Holborn
Dofier
Johnson's Court
Ion Own
Tunbridge Wells
Edmund Wood
Goldstone
Ashford
Kent
Stephen Richards
Mercer
Lanterbury
Greenhill