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Newspaper

Public Ledger

Location

London, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Date

Jun 24, 1760

Page

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Letter on dress and social rank from Pekin to Fum Hoam

The writer contrasts courtly dress in Persia Europe and England and muses on wealth display. A tale unfolds of a dining room confrontation with dancing masters and a poor man who is revealed to be a refined epicure. The piece ends with a political critique of Hanover Austria Prussia and imperial diplomacy.

Fum Hoam Persia China Europe England Thad Kalmacs Maxdert House of Brunswick Westphalia Hanover Europa Louis XIV Howfe House of Austria Austria Brunswick Maubert Court of Moselle Rhine Germany Vienna Great Britain France Britain Normandy Britanny Ireland Mediterranean Minorca Versailles Prussia Saxony Silesia Richelieu House ‘of House of Hanover Charles the Sixth Aix la Chapelle Russia

Port News From Falmouth and Weymouth June Voyages

Maritime notices report arrivals and sailings near Falmouth Weymouth and Portsmouth with ships from London Liverpool New York Virginia Georgia and Oporto including Eleanora Betchford Prince Frederick Sally Monmouth and others. Several frigates Sloops of war and merchantmen pass Spithead and the Downs while convoy ships sail in various directions.

Falmouth Fune Wind N.niw N.S. da Conception Pellaway This Place Eleanora Betchford London Cadiz Copeland Lisbon Sally Lutherburrow Dieppe Liverpool Plymouth Nancey Donway New York Monmouth Edgar Argo Bay Surprize Milford Pallas Arethosa Weymouth St. Francis Pinto Guernsey Speedwell Thomas Tryal Elliott Catharine Southampton Kent Wheeler William Richards Dormer Oporto Cowes Cowes Road Capt Cook Portsmouth Backe Amsterdam Elizabeth Markham Hambro Georgia Portmouth Spithead Sarah Thackstone Biddeford Jamaica Downs Ranger Keilen Gravesend Wormsley Alicant Charming Polly Birkman Figuera New Bosphorus Anson Smyrna Esther Mary Young Virginia Kerby Hall Watson Dolphin Rockwood Ceres Bullman Earl of Earl of Glanfeld, Camberford;. Adventure, Wafer; Gadeth, Gudfel;:Hulton Holvete Western Noler Swift Dovell Chitman Saunders Friend Edford White Selftrataler Clark London Packet Scott Rotterdam Susannah Green Canners Fletcher Afffrance Toyland Stockholm Deal Wind E. N. E Westcoat Harrison Hamburgh Prince Harry Daniel Industry Davis Woolwich Wetherell Ditto Mercury Ball Malaga Albany Cami

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