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Newspaper
Daily Courant
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Dec 20, 1732
Page
2
The text discusses punishing sedition and the advantage to the government if Patriots publish sedition and others buy pamphlets. It notes not including Mr B under scurrilous pamphlets to avoid taxing his understanding.
A detailed imperial scene reports the Festival of the Immaculate Conception in Vienna with high officials taking oaths, and courtly entertainments including the Prince of Wales at the Hay Market Opera. London items note promotions in the army, a Spanish ambassador’s reception, a Cockpit committee meeting, a sharpers’ scam at the Devil Tavern, deer-poaching cases in Essex, and varying moves in the South Sea securities, plus stock and insurance quotations.
Printed and sold by T. Cooper at the Globe Ivy Lane near Paternoster Row. The pamphlet is an answer to a letter to Samuel Holden Esq arising from his chair speech at a Dissenters general meeting on November 29 1732. Price three pence.
Trinity House announces the lower lighthouse at Orfordness burned on Saturday night. A fierce light will be kept until a new lighthouse can be rebuilt, with authorities directing continued safety and guidance.
A notice to all real and personal Estates holders announces a proprietors meeting at the Swan Tavern in Cornhill. December 21 at twelve o clock to decide methods for recovering and securing property wrongfully withheld via alleged fraud and collusion. Further particulars to be presented.
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