01 Aug 1744
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Newspaper
Daily Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Aug 01, 1744
Page
1
The lettered summary reports Swedish ambassadors arriving with credentials, Austrian and French intrigues, and troop movements toward August. mentions British naval orders for Spithead and Excise appointments, social notices of marriages, a burglary in Shad Thames, and a Portsmouth squadron’s sea departure.
Port News reports ships Winchester Dover and the tind-Stoop failed to the Westward while Grampus Sloop arrived and went on a cruise. Warships Phoenix Man and several vessels escorted from the Westward. Three Dutch men of war arrived and privateer Rufbout under Captain Couch bound on a cruise. Lenox Shoreham Rhanix Wolf Slegos and three Dutch men of war bound to Spithead sail in convoy.
Fragmentary text shows references to South Sea annuities with prices, a bank circulation figure, and numeric series. Names and complete context are unclear, but the snippet indicates financial instruments and rates, with scattered figures like 120.3 and 51.15. The source lacks coherent narrative to extract a full event.
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