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Newspaper
Daily Courant
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Sep 05, 1732
Page
2
The passage argues that religious control equates to tyranny over mind and body. It criticizes clerical influence as a form of slavery and praises true patriots who resist such authority. The speaker asserts personal conscience as a battleground against coercive power, naming Mr Fog and Sam in a heated defense of liberty.
Reports from Petersburgh Dantzick and Vienna describe conferences on Persia and developments in Prussia Saltzburg Protestant settlement under King Frederick William II. Czarina praised. orders to guard frontiers as contagion fears rise. Ships arriving and sailing from Hamburg Rotterdam Oporto and St Christophers reflect busy Atlantic and Baltic trade and naval movements.
News from the Admiralty reports Lord Torrington aboard the William and Mary Yacht safe at Gravesend with easterly winds, plans to weigh at the next tide. Captain Symonds to take command of the Sharke at Portsmouth. Princesses Mary and Louisa enjoy air at Hampstead before dinner. September guard attendance arranged for the Queen. Highwayman robs Blandford Stage Coach pair but escapes with some spoils. Moll Harvey jailed for assault and disorderly house. Newgate imprisonment for theft at Sun Tavern. Sessions of Peace begin at Guildhall with 130 prisoners to be tried at the Old Bailey.
Deal records a strong eastnortheast wind with no ships in the Downs. At Gravesend on Sept 3 the Royal Vineyard from Calais, the Triumph from Jamaica, the Ostend Packet from Middleburg, the Homer and the William and Margaret from Dantzick, the Fenwick from Narve, and the St Michael from Newport are listed as arrived.
A marriage occurred last Wednesday between the Master of Raye and Miss Dalrymple daughter of Sir Robert Dalrymple and granddaughter to the Lord President of the Session. A third Reprieve was granted for Joseph Hume the soldier for killing Boddock the shoemaker. A curious animal skin with two heads and eight feet was added to Surgeons Hall as a curiosity. Market quotes and bonds markets follow with diverse figures for South Sea stock India bonds and various insurance and bank securities.
By order of the Honourable Commissioners of his Majesty's Customs a parcel of Bohea and Green Teas will be exposed to sale at the Customhouse London on Wednesday September 6 1732 at three o clock in the afternoon. Viewings Monday 4 and Tuesday 5 September eight to twelve and two to five, and Wednesday morning before the sale. Buyers pay five guineas per lot down. if under five pounds half payable, goods must be taken within fourteen days, with reweighing and new pricing for the Bohea and Green Teas at five shillings per pound with a penny rise per pound per bid.
The Court of Directors of the South Sea Company announce a General Court at their Threadneedle Street House London on Friday next the 8th at eleven in the forenoon for half yearly and special affairs.
Tomas Ear rs, a French wine merchant in Seething Lane London, imports neat old brandy and offers it at 6s 6d per gallon cash ready money for any parcel and by wholesale on the Keys with no adulteration. He plans a large arrival and tasting at the Keys. attendance at his Seething Lane house daily noon to one and at Tom's Coffee House in Cornhill from twelve to two.
A list of religious titles and works issued today including Samuel Clarke related discourses on God and revelation, Clarke's Sermons in ten volumes, a Dissertation on the darkness at Christ's Passion, Ashilly Syxtes on error’s innocence, and a Vindication of Innocency of Error with various editions and prices.
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