Melancholy tale of a distressed father and doomed marriage
In the Gazetteer a Distrefed Parent laments his failed fortune and obstinate restraint on his daughter Emily's marriage to Charles of 6001. per annum. The letter recounts the lover forced abroad to earn a living, Emily's secret heartbreak, a fatal pursuit in Scotland, and her death alongside Charles. The piece includes moral reflections on liberty, tyranny, and social reforms, with appended aphorisms on manners and racecourses.
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Causes of scarcity and prices debated in Septembers Chronicle
Agricola discusses broad causes of life cost rises, criticizing both abstract theorists and empirical contrarians. He argues real fixes require joint efforts of ministers and merchants, rejecting solely debt or bounty explanations and urging credible, experience-based reform to avert national decline. He also notes a public inscription proposal for General Wolfe memorial tone.
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