Antiquated balance to weigh honesty and vice proposed
A dated letter describes an inventor who claims a machine to weigh a person’s talents and faults. He tests it on public virtue, patriotism, and the Arch Tempter, noting failings and absurdities. He plans more experiments and hopes for further discoveries in the honor of patriotism.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sien
Periftt
Great Britain
Comera
Fale
F. Newbery
St. Paul’s Church- Yard
W. Davis
Sackville Street
Piccadilly
Ae Bell
Aldgate
Royal Speech Amid Lobby Clash Sparks House Debate
Postscript recounts a tense scene as King in oath attendance with Duke of Ancaster triggers a guarded Speech from the Throne. Lords ride in state, Commons lobby blocks and insults fly toward political figures as Englishmen resist office masters. Royal procession, Prince of Wales and Bishop Oldebugg attend, Eyre appears as judge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ancaster
Commons
House O Commons
England
Prince of Wales
Ayas
Route of Commons
Lord Talbot
Farnes Eyre
Peers
House of Peers
Sheriff Lewes
Vote of Commons
Fire threat in Constantinople and lottery notes flood news
Letters from Constantinople report Janissary mutinies endangering the city with massacres of Jews and Greeks. In London, lottery draws at Guildhall yield many prizes as a gentleman rejects a ticket over a lat figure. Additional items include a torpedo experiment at Rochelle, an Westminster decree for a butcher, and local incidents from Fleet Market to Blackheath.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mittee
Constantinople
Westminster
Marke
High Courto Chancery
Gatwick
Surry
Werminster
J. Jones
Court of Common Pleas
Spratley
Longlane
Southwark
Black Horse-alley
Fleet-market
Yetterday
Blackheath
Fazakerly
Holborn
Prices of Stocks and Bonds in Old Market Listing
Prices show South Sea at 144 1 4, India 164 1 half to 166, red 86 7 8, 287 Ditto confol 83 3, per cent figures for Vol 3, Ind Ann 81 3 9, 33 175% 89 7 Sths 4 per cent conf 92 1 4, Bonds 7s a % of Navy and Victualling Bills 2 dir. Long Ana.
Theatrical Entertainment Listings at Drury Lane and Covent Garden
The listing notes yesterday’s program at Drury Lane featuring The West Indian and The Elopement with tonight’s Grecian Daughter and A Trip to Scotland. Covent Garden shows yesterday Elfrida and The Deuce is in Him, plus this evening Elfrida with The Apprentice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Drury-Lane
Yeterday
Scotland
Covent Garden
Elfrida
Instrument for detecting gold counterfeits with sliding rule
Public notice announces a Royal Letters Patent for a portable detector of gold frauds. It explains true weight, alloy content, and adulteration, claims infallible principles, and offers a sliding rule device sold by multiple London and provincial agents. Prices: five shillings with wood slide, seven shillings with brass.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. Darby and Co
Camden
Glocestershire
Thomas Lee
Goldsmith
Nottingham
William Pear
Lincoln
London
S. Cave
St. John’s Gate
No. 22
St. John’s Square
Dicey and Co
Bow Church-yard
Watts
Lad Lane
Gilbert
Tower-hill
This Day of Servants Wages Bookical Advertisement
A historical price oriented notice for Th Servants Book of Knowpence by Anthony Hersel. It promises tables of wages for odd days to a year and marketing tables, with clear instructions for servants of both sexes to qualify for various posts. Printed by J Cooke in Paternoster Row.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Lord “Viscount Townshend
Ireland
W. Goldsmith
Mary Tryon
Denny Ottavo
George Edie
J Cooke
Shakespeare’s Head
Pater-nofter-Row
Cai
Ogether
Anthony Hersel
J. Cooke
Shakespear’s Head
Great Britain
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Midatesex Journal
Mong
Postscript
Lo.n.d
Sieur Seignett
Rochelle
Walth
Royal Society of London
Mr. Walsh
Dee. TY
Poland
Kingdom
Gentleman’s Magazine
Isaac Newton
St.John’s Gate
D. Henry
St. Paul’s Church
Ridley’s
St. James’street
St. Martin's
Wilkie
St. Paul’s
Cook’s
Royal Exchange
Brick Lane
Brown’slane
Spitalfields
Harry Waters
J. Nobile
St. Martin’s Court
W. Bayley
Cockspur Street
Haymarket
A. Rothwell
Civet Cat
New Bond Street
J. Grosvenor
Angéland Crown
St. Paul's Church-Yard
J. Price
India House
Leadenha
Robert Winch
St. Paul’s Church Yard
Ludgate Street
Jacob Hemet
Amelia
France
Italy
Hemet
Cockspur-street
Leadenhall Street
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