13 Feb 1729
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Newspaper
Daily Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Feb 13, 1729
Page
1
Hague February 15 reports the arrival of a British royal yacht to transport the Dowager Countess of Derrie and her daughter Lady Sophia Bentinck to England after the Dowager’s illness and bloodletting. The article notes a Frisian prince’s expected visit, a judicial suit, and Dutch Admiralty commissioners preparing ships for the year.
A fragmentary notice in the periodical invites readers to an tomorrow event at Newportsmarket discussing diverse topics from human nature and companionship to fashion, hunting, and domestic life. It references Mr. Wreherly and signals a humorous, moralizing program with philosophical and social humor.
London reports the Duke of Richmond landed at Portsmouth from Lisbon and will visit the Court before returning to France to fetch the Duchess of Portsmouth and his children for London. The piece also notes various court sentences, ship news from Deal, a miscreant condemned to the pillory, a Bristol-bound vessel on shore near Biddeford, a death in Fen Church Street, and a Mezzotint inscription attributed to Dean Smedley.
The Daily Post reports two highwaymen attacked the Lord Bishop of Offory and his son near Buckingham House. They robbed a diamond ring a watch a sword money and other valuables before escaping on horseback. also noted are upcoming sermons auctions and various stock prices and theatre notices.
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