A Plan to Promote Matrimony by Public Fund
A letter to the printer proposes a public fund to encourage marriage among the lower classes. It suggests three years of service by maid servants, with a Twenty Pound grant on marriage, to foster virtuous conduct, reduce seduction, and strengthen families. The writer appeals to patriotic duty and cites moral precedents from Greece and religious sources.
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Paradise
Firth
Bork
Peron
Coliette
Zach Young
Jia
Potter
Greece
Ordeal trials in Malabar cited with capital crime details
A reader requests information on ancient Indian ordeal trials used as capital punishment. The letter notes a ritual where the accused endures a fire or hot object test in public before a prince and priests. if unhurt the trial may continue or death ensues. Witnesses are urged to testify. February 2 1761. Portsmouth news list of ships arriving and sailing.
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Pal
Alpena
Aida
Malabar
India
Ax J
Henig
Stein
Bart
Fragmentary Jacobean Reflection with Military Farce
A dated excerpt blends dramatic mimicry with political commentary on virtue and Vice, referencing Demea and Stebies, and criticizing modern morals. It shifts to reports of Jamaica insurrections, naval actions near Mauritius, and captures by British and privateers, detailing the Warwick and Minerva engagements and a French threat near Gape-Head.
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Demea
Han Bloom
Tage
Jamaica
Warwick
theHland
Mauritius
East-Indies
Minerva
Warvick
Gape - Head
Perrs
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Choo
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Ahn
Schuppers
Cumberland
Reynolds
Portsmouth
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Pooley
Superb
Prince ‘George
Greep
Tve
Boston
Intent
M‘bone
Gampreste
Hendrick
Derick
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Ruby
Peacock
Thomas and Richards
St. Paul’school
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Harley
Germany
Sweden
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Europe
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