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Newspaper
Daily Courant
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jul 20, 1731
Page
2
A critical reading of a verse dialogue depicts conspirators led by Faffeir and Pierre plotting to incite rebellion against a government. They praise liberty while planning violent upheaval, using patriotic rhetoric to mask treason, with a narrator exposing how pseudo patriotism peddles cruelty and self-interest.
From Holland letters report the last class of the credit lottery will begin drawing on the gth of August next O S. Tickets for the lottery and the Hague lottery are available at Bridge's Coffeeshouse Cornhill where they are renewed registered or examined and prizes discounted. The East India Company directors announce the arrival of the Montague capt Keats from the Downs 13 December 1729 via St Helena. A fire aboard a ship at Rotherhithe yesterday destroyed three or four lives and damaged several others near low water. Mails from France and Holland brought no material news. Market notes list South Sea stock 102 7 8, annuity 107 5 4, bonds 5 19s, Bank 146, circulation 81 1os, million bank 108, India 197 3 aths 197 7 8 to 198, India bonds 6 1 2s, Royal Assurance 98 1 qth, London Assurance 12 1 4th, African 59, York Buildings 24 1 ath, three per cent annu 94 3 4ths, English copper 3.1, Welsh copper 212s. Lottery tickets 8 s.
Notice states that the Governor and Company of the Bank of England will buy and sell foreign gold and silver at current market price. It adds that due care will be taken with Bills of Loading and freight will be paid to captains to encourage merchants.
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