Press cutting book Volume of press cuttings, apparently collected by Samuel Whitbread...

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1777 - 1807

Press cutting book

Volume of press cuttings, apparently collected by Samuel Whitbread II (1764-1815). It includes material on international, national and local affairs. The cuttings concern society and political matters (e.e the slave trade 1787-8), shipping, taxation, curiosities, biographical material, political broadsheets, and manuscript memoranda. Contents include:

P.1 Letter from George Washington to Lt.Gen. Burgoyne, 1777.

P.9 A satirical poem about Voltaire, 20 June 1778

P.13 Election of a burgess at Wigan, 4 Nov.1779, and election of Chamberlian of London, 12 Nov.1779.

P.15 Letter from McGullett [?] to Samuel Whitbread claiming that England's position was stronger internationally (especially regarding the navy) than that of her neighbours, from the Exeter Flying Post 24 Nov.1779.

P.17 List of the Navy of the United Provinces, 11 January 1781.

P.18 The accounts of the East India Company, 19 Dec.1780.

Ladies hairdressing advertisement, 19 Dec.1780

P.19 Report giving the background as to how certain City Companies gained their precedence over others, n.d. [c.1780]

P.24 Report on money subscribed in Dudley and Wolverhampton to provide the poor with bread at a lower price, 30 Dec.1782

P.25 A Parliamentary speech, 9 March n.d. [c.1782-3]

P.26 Elections at Westminster, 13 Feb.1784

Subscriptions to help the widow of Tobias Smollett, n.d. [c.1782]

P.27 Poem on Mr.Fox, 31 Jan.1784

P.29 Details of the National debt, n.d. [c.1783].

Spain's decline attributed to her wealth, from the St.James's Chronicle Dec.1784.

The evils of gambling, n.d. [c.1784]

The death of Dr.Johnson, n.d. [1784]

P.30-2 Articles on Voltaire (anti) and Dr. Johnson (pro), 1784

P.31 Report on English Tea drinking, n.d. [c.1784]

National accounts, from Morning Post 16 March 1784

P.33 Memorandum [manuscript] on Messrs. Boulton and Watt's steam engine, 21 Feb.1785.

Memorandum [manuscript] on Sir Cornelius Vermuyden, told to Whitbread by Mr.Smeaton 8 June 1785

P.34 Fire at Potton, from St.James's Chronicle, 26 Aug.1783

The cost of suing out a brief, from St.James's Chronicle, 12 Sept.1783

P.35 List of ships launched and where they were built, n.d. [c.1783]

P.39 Proposal to build a prison in Battersea Field (as an alternative to deportation and execution), n.d. [c.1785]

P.40 Election of Directors of the East India Company, 2 July 1785.

Taxes 2 July 1785

P.41 Epitaph to Dr.Johnson, 7 July 1785

"On Convicts", from St.James's Chronicle, 7 July 1785

P.43 Taxes, from St.James's Chronicle, 7 July 1785

P.45 On Sunday Schools, from The Morning Chronicle, 3 Sept. 1785

P.51 Coloured cartoon of Mr. Christopher Atkinson in the pillory for perjury, 29 Nov.1785 - related text on p.49.

P.52 Invention of a sewing machine, 22 Jan.1786.

List of Royal waste lands, n.d. [c.1786]

P.53 Arrest of the Countess de la Motte, Paris, 22 June n.d. [c.1786]

P.56-7 Particulars of horses to be sold at auction by Messrs. Tattersalls, 25 July 1786

[Loose cuttings from 1819]

P.60 Letter from Mr. Howard [John Howard] abroad, from the Morning Chronicle, 17 September 1786.

P.62 Information on Archbishops - their ages, children, etc. - from the St.James's Chronicle, 17 Oct.1786.

The escape of Benjamin Grigson from Yarmouth gaol, 9 Dec.1786.

P.63 Comparison of treatment of would-be assassin of King, Margaret Nicholson, with her French counterpart; details of torture etc., n.d. [c.1786]

P.65 Loyal address from Clergy to the King following assassination attempt, and a parody of this address, n.d. [c.1786]

P.66 List of Chief Porter Brewers of London, n.d. [c.1787]

P.67 Remarkable occurrences in 1786, n.d. [c.1787].

Surface area and population of the European states, n.d. [c.1787].

P.70-1 Notes [manuscript] on weather, trees and crops at Bedwell Park, 1786-7

P.72 The character of the Duke of Norfolk, from The Morning Chronicle n.d. [c.1787]

P.74 Motes [manuscript] on spring weather at Bath, 1787

The growth of Barley in England and Wales, 22 Nov.1787.

Report of a "putrid fever" in Suffolk, 22 Nov.1787.

P.75 Report on Sunday Schools from The Gazetteer 7 Oct.1786.

P.77 Satire on use of language and vocabulary, from the St.James's Chronicle, Nov.1787

Defence of the French policy towards the United Provinces in The [Morning?] Chronicle 1787.

P.79 The slave trade, in The Morning Chronicle, Jan.1788

A whale brought into Sunderland, from The Gazetteer, Feb.1789.

P.81 Gall stones, from The Morning Chronicle 31 March 1788.

Article calling for opposition by proprietors of East India stock to the Declaratory Bill on Parliament, from The Morning Chronicle, March 1788.

P.82 Article on Rigby, referring to the Duke of Bedford, from The World 10 April 1788.

P.83 Taxes, from The Gazetteer, 8 April 1788

P.84-7 Reports on the Slave Transport Bill, from The Morning Chronicle, June 1788

P.88 On West Indian Negroes, from The Morning Chronicle, 2 Sept.1788

P.89 Population figures, from The Morning Chronicle, 13 Oct.1788

P.90 Extraordinary powers of calculation of a negro slave, from The Gazetteer, 15 Sept.1788

P.91 Reports on France, from Woodfall's Diary, 29 July 1789.

P.92-3 Tithes, from The St.James's Chronicle, Aug.1789

P.94 Foundling Hospitals, n.d. [c.1789]

P.95 The debts of the East India Company, from Woodfall's Diary, 11 Dec.1789

P.96 Sonnet written at the time of Mr. [John] Howard's death, 27 July 1790

P.97 The death of Dr.Franklin, 28 June 1790

P.98 Letter from a planter in Jamaica, 23 July 1793

P.99 Extract from "The Farmer's Pocket Diary" in The St.James's Chronicle, 30 Aug.1790

Widening and repairing of roads in Bedfordshire, from The Northampton Mercury, 6 Sept.1790

[Eleanor Moore's abstract ends here]

P.113 Obituary of John Smeaton, civil engineer, n.d. [c.1792]

P.123 "Dr.[William] Dodd's last prayer", 27 June [1777]

P.130-3 Death of Francis Russell, Duke of Bedford (d.2 March 1802) and his will - cuttings from The Morning Chronicle and other papers

P.155-6 Funeral of the Duke of Bedford, n.d. [1802]

P.158 Leaflet on "The Invisible Girl - Incomprehensible experiment, the most surprising Phenomenon that has ever been witnessed in London" n.d. [c.1803]

P.201 Cards for plays at Woburn Abbey theatre (printed by Webb, Bedford), n.d. [c.1806]

P.203 Tickets (2) issued to S.Whitbread Esq. for seats in the Great Chamberlain's Box at the trial of Lord Viscount Melville, n.d. [1807]

P.214-5 Samuel Whitbread's election addresses for Bedford Borough elections, April 1807

P.234-5 Bedford Infirmary accounts, 1807

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