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Newspaper
Daily Courant
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
May 18, 1731
Page
2
A metropolitan discourse on how power, disappointment, and anger shape ministerial decisions and party loyalty. It argues ministers may sacrifice public good to preserve posts, while capable men can be coerced into unjust acts, and stresses that opposition is not inherently treacherous but often prudently strategic.
On Friday a man named Joseph Bevill was committed to Bridewell by Sir William Ogborne and others on a charge of attempting sodomy. In Castle-Market two butcher’s children drank brandy left by their mother. one died at once and the other may not recover. Stock notes follow with South Sea shares and bonds, bank figures, India bonds, and various securities, including Royal and London Assurance, African and York Buildings.
Whitehall Treasury Chambers announces that funds for an eight hundred thousand pound lottery are to be paid into the Bank of England to the receivers named, in two equal payments due by June 1 1731 and August 20 1731. Purchasers are notified to pay promptly under penalties for nonpayment.
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