26 Feb 1760
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Newspaper
Public Ledger
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Feb 26, 1760
Page
1
A Seeker family member laments city assembly snubs and mocks a lordly circle, arguing for renaming to Metropolitan Ball. A satire titled The Rendezvous notes Covent Garden Piazza vices, praising plain taste over debauchery and exposing social pretensions with named figures.
Letters from yesterday discuss the next campaign focus against Pomerania with Colberg siege, critique Silesia routing, and note Baltic actions. Reports from Vienna and Paris cover funding, cannon readiness, and earthquakes, with Ottoman and Spanish connections hinted in continental dispatches.
PORT NEWS reports the Fanny brigantine commanded by Daniel M Laine stranded on Portland Beach around eleven in the morning. The captain and four mariners were saved but five people drowned. Multiple other vessels are listed as arrived or remaining in various ports including Belfast Newry Lancaster Marblehead Portsmouth Cadiz Barcelona Alicant Valentia Genoa Leghorn and Leghorn with assorted timetables and cargos mentioned.
Our literary correspondent reports the publication of Political Institutions by Baron de Bielfeld in two volumes from Holland. The work is praised as useful and necessary for rulers and conversationalists alike, urging restraint and informed judgment in governance and noting that polity is a key science with religion at the top in guiding national happiness.
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