Be ye Prepared for Danger and Heroic Freedom
Poem exhorts readiness in peril to defend Earthly freedom. Imagery invokes heavenly tears and seraphs calling for selfless sacrifice. The speaker urges steadfast courage, poverty, and death in defense of liberty, promising immortal honors and universal praise.
Harvest news and political dispatches from Europe and Britain
Reports from the London Gazette outline drought and harvest figures in Piedmont Lombardy and the Two Sicilies, with bans on grain exports. Updates from Stockholm detail amnesty and proclamations after the Swedish reform, while notices from Cavendish square and Westminster recount public safety actions, pardons and memorials. Additional rural price notes cover hops and cheese markets across England.
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Piedmont
Genoa
Mantua
Ferrara
Venice
Lombardy
Two Sicilies
St. James's
Great Britain
Charles Cocks
Dumbleton
Gloucestershire
Patrick Blake
Langham
Suffolk
Paulet St. John
Farley
Hants
Robert Wilmot
Osmarton
Derby
Derbyshire
James Wright
Republic of Venice
Lyonel Lytle
Ayot St. Lawrence
Herts
Fig
Egerton Leigh
South Carolina
Cakes for making Shining Liquid Blacking for Shoes
By the King's Patent these Cakes make with water a fine shining liquid blacking for leather. It yields a glossy, soft, pliable finish that resists cracking and is odor free. Sold by Bayley and several perfumers in London at sixpence per cake, each yielding a pint of liquid blacking.
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Holland
Stockholm
Rustrom
Engstrom
Odelius
Finland
Baron de Pechlin
Linkipping
Assembly of the States
Gustavus
W. Bayley
Cockspur Street
Haymarket
A. Rothwell
Civet Cat
New Bond Street
Balsamic Tincture Claim of S curvy Cure Offered
A letter from March 25, 1772, attests a complete cure of inveterate scurvy after six or seven bottles of a balsamic tincture. Dauntless endorsement invites public testimony at 64 Coleman Street and notes wholesale and retail sale by F Newbery at 3s 6d per bottle, with a free short symptom list.
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Coleman Street
F. Newbery
St. Paul's Church-Yard
Doégter
Little Chapel-Street
Wardour-Street
Soho
N. B
Remarkable cure using Marchant's Drops at Norton’s surgery
A letter from 1772 salutes John Norton, surgeon of Golden Square, London, claiming a long standing skin and blood disorder cured by Marchant's Drops. The writer urges publication, lists ailments cured, and notes wide availability and warnings about counterfeits.
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Marchant
London
Berwick-street
Soho
John Haines
Norton
Golden Square
Piccadilly
John Norton
N. B
Marehant
Foreign affairs and peace talks update from Europe
Reports from Marseilles Alexandria and Warsaw detail Ali Bey s victory and ongoing congress talks through September 21 with hopes for peace between Russia and the Ottoman Turks. Hague Ratisbon dispatches outline a peace treaty granting Crimea independence and other territorial shifts including Podlachia Lyts Halicz and Prussia interests with Austria and Poland figures noted. Additional items mention court dismissals prorogation of Parliament travel news shipwrecks and a pace of industry with a new friction reduction machine and Bay of Havana prisoners.
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Marseilles
Etters
Alexandria
Egypt
Ali Bey
Warsaw
Warjac
Lot
Fokzani
Pore
Ruffia
Capt. Wilde
Palatinate of
Podlachia
Dwina
Borysthenes
Nieper
Baltic Sea
Black Sea
Caspian Sea
House of Austria Thall
Poffesion
Lyts
Halicz
Septembr
Leopol
Lemberg
Procutia
Prussia
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Kozinski
Ireland
Dutch East-India Company
East Indies
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Germany
Duke and Duchess of Northumberland
Wilson
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Nero
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Cavendish Square
Earl of Oxford
Carmen Striving
Rosemary-lane
Bank of England
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Propper
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Drury Lane
County of Lancaster
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Hester Booth
William Tyler
Country News
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Giles
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Romney
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Portsmouth
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Sterling
Antigua
Cambridge
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Riley
Broadstreet
Rysseeg
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Don
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Cranbourne Lodge
Murray
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Rochester
John Calcraft
George Hatton
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Admiral Man
Martinico
Jones
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Bernholm
Norway
Varlo
John Ramley
Havannah
Peter Scard
Thomas James
Montego Bay