22 Dec 1761
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Newspaper
Public Ledger
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Dec 22, 1761
Page
1
A reader defends reducing window duty as unfair to the poor and argues against further tax raises. He compares window charges with coach import duties, noting evasion and unequal burden, and urges consideration of monetary relief to ease national hardship amid rising taxes. The letter cites public papers and laments effects on marriage, labor, and industry.
A long 18th century pamphlet listing a new publication series on eloquent letters by persons of rank, printed for S Williams at Ludgate Hill. It promotes affordability and catalogs varying prices for reading, notes Addison as exemplary, and urges the value of epistolary writing for charm and instruction. The page also advertises Stomachic Lozenges warned by royal patent, with prices and selling locations in St Paul’s Church Yard and Suffolk Street.
An advertisement for pectoral lozenges of tolu praised as the best remedy for coughs catarrhs and throat discomfort. It lists sellers in London Bath Salisbury Bury York Norwich and other places and notes pricing and accompanying medicines like white drops bitter pills sweating powders and Ba l s of paste with claims of curative powers for stomach pains dropsy and other ailments.
Dispatches describe troops in Saxony preparing work on winter quarters while Austrian and Prussian forces divide Saxony. Reports from Paris note peace efforts, a French shipbuilding plan, and ongoing troop movements toward Freyberg. Port arrivals include ships from Quebec Rotterdam London and Newfoundland with cargoes of pilchards butter and firs.
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