Observations on Cicero and modern letter writing
The Gazetteer notes readers’ boredom with East India letters and praises Cicero and Pliny for plain style. It critiques today’s grand salutations, laments the rise of royal fawning in correspondence, and discusses political virtue, liberty, and the abuse of power in monarchical contexts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dulness
Cicero
Pliny the Younger
Caius Marius
Pompey the Great
Cesar
Trajan
Ceefar
Weil
Denmark
Portugal
Sardinia
Helvetius
America
Madeiras
Ufe
Parody Announcements and Odd Remedies From Margate Letter
A Margate letter in the Whitehall Evening-Post ridicules false gossip about society figures and prints mock notices. It includes jests about teeth, illnesses, and minor scuffles, plus a reader’s remedy for gout involving cherries and purgatives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thame
The Revolutionist on Anglo parliamentary rights and crown
The writer argues from earlier letters that hereditary free-tenant rights in England cannot merge with the crown except by forfeiture or surrender. He urges a full impartial review of Parliament’s history from the Conqueror, asserting that the realm’s governance should favor the hereditary model, given England’s commercial growth and naval stature. He details William I’s lands, rents, and the Domesday-recorded hereditary crown estate, implying substantial revenue from crown lands.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Soho
England
Privy Council
Capt. Jones
Captain Jones
Gomorrah
Also Mentioned on This Page
Literary Chronicle
Gazetteer
the Public Ledger
Jones
London
John
iLobert Jones
Huffey
Miss Temple
Dr. Wilson
the Morning Chronicle
Furlus
Durance
Wilkes
Guildrod
Baron Smyhe
Stephen
King’s Bench
The
London Evening Post
St. James’s Chronicle
Whitehall Evening-Post
Margate
Affurt
Tabitha Runt
Cotillon
Rufpini
Strutt
Laon Blair
Miss Taper
General Evening Post
the Gazetteer
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