Marble Urn Presented to the King and Turkish Vessel News
Naples reports a white marble urn found during foundation work in the Bay of Bari. A Trapani galliot brings a Turkish vessel seized between Tunis and Susa with 56 Moors aboard. A Grand Council of War meets at Duke de Charm's. The King grants Charm’s Dutchens similar honors to royal kin. Rome notes Alberoni seeks Ravenna tenure to offset river floods and delays. Cardinal Corfini hosts a grand entertainment for cardinals.
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Baya
Trapani
Tunis
Suza
Duke de Charmi
Ronco
Montone
Cardinal Alberoni
Ravenna
de Tencin
Malta
Nettuno
Corfini
Corio
Duke de St. Aignan
Lord Dunbar
Chevalier de St. George
Cardinal de Tencin
Acciacoli
France
Kingdom of
Paris
Admiralty Appoints Ships and Captains in 1739 Order
Yesterday the Board of Admiralty ordered the Boyne to Commodore Lestock and Severn to Capt. Forbes with other vessels to captains Ricaule, Holburn, and Kidd. Rumors of an affogues ship in Admiral Haddock hands swirl, while dockyard works at Woolwich and Deptford advance five ships into service. Deaths and arrests appear in news items, including Mr. Martin’s death and a Kent Street constable attacked by a mob during an arrest. Public notices include exports and imports data, high water at London Bridge, and the first Epilogue of A Dissertation upon Parties dedicated to Sir Robert Walpole.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Admiralty
Lords Commissioners
Boyne
Lestock
Grafton
Severn
Forbes
Panther
Ricaule
Swift
Holburrn
Port Mahon
Gibraltar
Duke
Mercury
Woglwigh Dock
Woolwich
Cumberland
Deptford
Bury Street
St. James’s
Martin
St. James
Kensington
Hampton Court
Windsor
Duke of Grafton
Cadogyn
Kent Street
Bridewell
Elizabeth Cartwright
Newgate
Justice Fawkes
KirKealdic
Boddice, &c
Holland
Portugal
Caleb D’anvers
Robert Walpole
Price
R.francklin
Ruffel-street Covent-Garden
Port News Update on Merchant Vessels and Arrivals
Port News reports Aug 9 updates with ships Men of War Outward bound and Clyde Wattson anchored. Dover Aug 6 arrival Poole Marquand from Jamaica. Gravesend Aug 9 ships Mary Abbott Petersbourg two Sisters Ankerman Providence Nelson Salvator Donaldson from Norway and Anne Reed from Petersbourg referenced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Deal
Clyde
Wattson
Antigua
Wind
Three Briefs Reach Paris on Clergy Plans from Rome
London reports from Paris that Rome sent three Briefs about the Fathers of the Oratory the Nuns of the Calvaire and a potential National Council to reform the clergy. Jansenists protest while others warn the Convention may become a National Council. Bavarian troops move toward Hungary and Belgrade reports say Ratfcha siege begins.
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Paris
Rome
Oratory
Calvaire
France
Buda
Vienna
Roth
N.S
Bavaria
Hungary
Belgrade
Bashaw
Bosnia
Ratfcha
Market Prices for South Sea and Related Securities
Yesterday stock and bond prices show South Sea Stock at 93 and South Sea Annuities around 106 to 108 with divisions. Various government and corporate securities trade near 99 to 115, including Three Per Cent Annuities, Exchequer Orders, Emperor's Loan, and Lottery Tickets priced toward midrange values amid a broad list of financial instruments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bank Circuiasion
Ss. Prem
India
Royal Exchange Assurance
London Wese
Prem
The Second Edition of Hatton Arithmetic on Cornhill
This Day is publish'd, The Second Edition (with Additions) of the entire System of Arithmetic by Edward Hatton. It covers arithmetic parts I to IX including algebraic, instrumental, decim al, sexagesimal, and political arithmetic with tables of logarithms to 100 and to 100000, and valuations for leases and money. The work promises clear rules, instructive examples, and an appendix on measurement of solids, aimed at rapid, competent knowledge of numbers and mathematics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eoward Hatton
G. Strahan
Cornhill
Supplement to Rolls' eloquence primer in four volumes
An English advertisement for a four volume edition of Rollin's classical education work with a new supplement on teaching belles lettres and rhetoric. It notes translational authors, prices, publishers, and additional titles on education and algebra by Wolfius, printed in London at the Red Lion in Paternoster Row.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rollin
University of Paris
Royal College
Royal Academy of Inscriptions and Belles Lettres
Charles Hitch
Red Lion
Paternoster Row
Christian Wolfius
College of
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London Bridge
Lin
Port News
London
Lucan
J. Brotherton
Bible
Alexander
Strahan
George Strahan
Royal Exchange
Charles IX
Europe
Price Stutch
Daniel Turner
Hempstead
Hertfordshire
Richard Herr
Poultry
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