20 Apr 1742
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Newspaper
Daily Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Apr 20, 1742
Page
1
A Boston publisher protests a letter urging linen manufacture support while critiquing woollen trade policy. He accuses advocates of self interest and warns against French influence, urging moderation and constitutional caution. Naval and port arrivals are listed, including ships from Venice, Naples, Hamburg, and Virginia, with logs of ships in the Downs and Liverpool arrivals.
Edinburgh mourns Sir Lawrence Mercer of Aldie died at Perth aged an advanced age. In London a trial of surgeons Trotter and Cuthbert for raising dead bodies adjourned with senience of pugitation, while naval and mercantile matters, ship prizes, public notices, and stock prices fill the rest of the report.
A fragment notes the Argyll Flem ming arriving in port at Dartmouth from Rotterdam bound for Virginia. No further details on voyage date or vessel specifics are provided in the readable text.
The advertisement invites audiences to Sadler's Wells at the New River Head Islington starting today at two in the afternoon. It lists rope dancing by Mariemoiselle Kerman, tumbling by Mons Dominique and others, singing by Heemskirke and Brett, and a variety of dances by a long roster including Dumont Baudouin Davenport and Hendrick. A Pancomime Harlequin Proteus closes the program, with Hendrick and others engaged for the summer season. Performances run twice daily during Easter Week holidays.
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