A History of Advertising from the Earliest Times.Sampson, Henry
History
A History of Advertising from the Earliest Times.
Sampson, Henry
Advertising -- History
On Friday evening, there was a private concert at the house of Mr.
Billington, in Poland Street, at which there were some of the
_first-characters_ in the kingdom. A more particular account of it
probably will be given in this paper on a future day.
Though clearing the gallery of the COMMONS of strangers be a _standing
order_, which any _member_ may insist upon without being seconded, yet
SIR GREGORY would not venture to put it in execution without
consulting his _Lady_: who, after examining the premises, has given
her opinion that _such things_ ought not to be _sported_ or _trifled_
with.
SIR THOMAS BEAVER and MAJOR MONEY have commenced _Literary
hostilities_, through the medium of the _Norwich Mercury_; their
ammunition is of inflammable materials--more, however, of _brimstone_
than of _salt_, and _charcoal_ in great abundance.
As this Paper has traced _every incident_ respecting LORD GEORGE
GORDON for several months past, it takes the liberty of announcing his
Lordship’s return to St. George’s Fields _early_ in the ensuing term.
LORD GEORGE GORDON is preparing to _beard_ Mr. ATTORNEY GENERAL on the
question of bail; and Mr. _Attorney_ on his part is preparing a
_cutting_ argument for _trimming Lord George_, but though his Lordship
has been so long in the _suds_, it is not thought that _shaving_ will
take place till _the day of Judgement_.
The paragraph which appeared in a certain respectable Morning Print,
relative to the discharge of a person from St. James’s, for having
paid a grateful attention to Lord George in his distresses is,
however, not true; indeed, the report was too _ungracious_ to be so.
O QUACKERY! where wilt thou end? O PHYSIC, when are thy disgraces to
terminate? There are at this time a practitioner in town, who says to
his patients--“Use my _wegetable_, follow my _regiment_, and never
fear it will _radicate_ all your _pectril_ complaints.” Such a
character should not escape the animadversion of THE TIMES; but of
_this here_ Doctor more anon--when _The Times_ have leisure.
Yesterday the Purser of the Dutton, Captain Hunt, for Bombay and
China, received his final dispatches from the India House.
It is really surprising that Bedford Street, one of the great leading
avenues to the Strand, should continue to remain in so confined a
state towards the bottom; it resembles a great bottle with a small
neck; there is not literally at its entrance from the Strand room for
two coaches to go abreast, yet forty yards higher it is roomy and
spacious. If the houses which form so great a bulk on the right hand,
where Cater the Pawnbroker now lives, were thrown down, and an elegant
range of new buildings to match the opposite corner, where Mess.
Humble and Henderson’s upholstery warehouse is, it would certainly be
equally commodious with either Catherine or Southampton Street.
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