16 Apr 1761
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Newspaper
Public Ledger
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Apr 16, 1761
Page
1
A letter from a wealthy merchant laments his wife’s shift toward luxury, social rounds, and late nights, arguing it drains fortunes and endangers the daughters’ prospects. He pleads public advice to curb fashionable excess and preserve conjugal felicity, while noting the city’s growing pursuit of pleasure among ladies.
Notices of two charity feasts in London in 1761 record annual events for the Governors of the Small Pox Hospital and the Charity. Attendees include bishops, nobility, and aldermen. Tickets available at major coffee houses and hospital stewards. Feasts occur after sermons at St Andrews and Merchant Taylors Hall.
Port News from Plymouth and surrounding ports lists several arrivals including Sig de Carma Marcana from London to Lisbon, Charming Betty Rogers from Windham Floyd, and Two Sisters King with others from Cork to Plymouth. Sailed ships include Diligence, Collins? and Love, Gibbons, for Newfoundland, with multiple vessels heading to Westward and to Boston, Virginia, Maryland, and Dublin.
Report from London notes Keppel's outport armament as the largest land-forces force seen this war. Granby meets the king at St James's. Cutts named purser of Florentine. Dreadnought near launch. French prize frigate taller and stronger than Albany. Kennedy, commanding Le Blonde, captures a large French ship off Cape Finisterre, amid praise for his earlier actions aboard Flamborough.
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