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Newspaper
Daily Courant
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jun 15, 1731
Page
2
The speaker questions Mr D Anvers alliance strategy amid reports that Clement XII has voiced protest against sections of the Vienna Treaty. He implies need for a strong ally to back his practice of political lying and hints at shifting alignments in diplomacy.
Distilled dispatches recount ships sailing and arriving from Rotterdam Cadiz and Lisbon, arrivals and departures at Dover and Southampton, with cargoes of wheat wool deals and freight. Reports include a London courier bearing news of the King of Spain approving the Vienna treaty, royal alterations at St James s Palace, and a fire at a Hackney house.
London reports announce Mr Carrington delivering dispatches from Vienna to Lord Harrington and Admiral Cavendish's audience at Hampton Court. Walter Murphy, a joiner, is said to have murdered his wife at the Talbot, then fled. Drift of other arrivals and stock market figures follow. Lord Muskerry’s voyage from Gibraltar ends at Portsmouth.
In Edinburgh on Thursday last a drummer from General Tarton’s Regiment was whipped in the Abbey Court for marrying a girl. The man who joined them in the act was placed on the Wooden Horse with spurs at his heels as punishment.
A clipped financial note lists prices and percentages: 213 aths. Three per Cent. Ann, 95 3 ths. English Copper 3 1. Welch Copper 2 1. 10s, Lottery Tickets 7 s. The fragment records coinage and lottery ticket pricing with limited context.
The Governor and Company of the Bank of England announce they will buy and sell foreign gold and silver at current market prices. To aid merchants, due care will be given on loading bills and freight will be paid to captains.
The commissioners announce daily office attendance at Holborn Court Gray's Inn No 9 from Thursday the 17th 1731 to issue yearly licenses. Apply in London before Mida Jammer next. surveyors may levy twelve pounds penalty on hawkers trading without licenses.
Trustees under an act of Parliament announce the sale by auction of the Farr estate freehold mansion house and gardens in Chelsea with appurtenances and household goods, and the freehold mansion house in King Street St. James's with appurtenances. The auction will be at the Lottery Office Whitehall on Wednesday 23 June at 10 in the forenoon. Details and sale conditions available at Mr Belley’s, attorney, in Norfolk Street Strand and at the sale location.
Two fronts on Broad Street near Holborn and another behind Front Hawes Squire of Joseph Kendall Scrivener Gerrard Street near St Anne's Church. In very good repair. Page particulars may be had.
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