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.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
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.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
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