Trade and politics from Cadiz to Venice in late December
Cadiz reports the Council of Commerce seeking leniency on English import bans and marshalling more vessels for loading. From Venice and Rome come notes of Levant trade aims and Alberoni’s planned tour. Stockholms talks on extraordinary dues. Bastia updates free up captive casuists. Corsican banditry and regimental issues persist. ships from Lisbon and the Tiber bring updates as a Dutch East India Man and Wind remain at sea.
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Council of Commerce
Lee
Mydsid
Carthagena
America
Piastres
Panama
Lima
Porto-Bello
Spain
Europe
Venice
Porte
Levant
Two Sicilies
Rome
San Marino
Cardinal Alberoni
Piecentia
Ravenna
Hanbourg
Fan
Stockholm
Senate of Sweden
Senaor
Bastia
Elso
Royal Regiment of
Corsica
Cant
Ampugnano
Baron Nethoff
Barnes
M. Herault
Baron Neuhoft
Paris
Dated notices and ship news from 1740 London gazette
Fragmentary notices report deaths of Mrs Snatt and Dr Stoughton Cushing in London along with naval prize distributions and ship safety from the Montagu and other vessels. It notes frost relief for the town, fish and oyster transport issues, inquests funding for the poor, Lent preachers appointments for 1740, Whitehall chapel timetable, and a promotion of Capt. Mordaunt Cracherode to Lieutenant Colonel and Portsmouth command. Also lists a bankruptcy: Dorothy Jones of Fleet Street.
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Kirby- Street
Hatton-Garden
Snatt
William Snatt
Crokfeld
Sussex
Chichester
Newgate
Collier
John Freind
William Perkins
Tyburn
Nox
Eve
Bartholomew Lane
Royal Exchange
Stoughton
Cushing
East-India Company
Montagu
Freeman
Tower Wharf
Deptford
Lee
Essex
Cuais
London Gazette
Winehall
Fan
Mordaunt Cracherode
Sheerness
Portsmouth
High Water at London Bridge and South Sea Stock Report
Trading notices show London Bridge water level noted at two minutes after six in the afternoon. Prices for South Sea Stock and Annuities fluctuate with openings at various fractions. bank and insurance securities also quoted. Market details include three percent annuities, million bank matters, and imperial loan figures with mixed bid and open prices.
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London Bridge
South Sea
New South Sea
Bank
Prem
India
Million Bank
Royal Exchange Assurance
London
Gopper
Ditto
Ditta
Notice to Gardeners and Traders for New Fruit Market Stands
London readers are informed to apply to the Committee of Common-Council managing the city markets for stands in the new Market for Fruit and Greens beside Leadenhall Market. Applications open Thursday next at five o'clock in the Guildhall Council Chamber to treat and agree on the terms.
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London
Leadenhall Market
Petition for Middlesex and Essex Turnpike Clerkship Preference
Henry Hate appeals for support to succeed Thomas Dunn as clerk for the Middlesex and Essex Turnpike Roads. He pledges faithful attendance and gratitude if chosen. Election note states the vote will be held at the Court-House in Whitechapel on Tuesday the 22nd instant at eleven o'clock in the morning.
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Thomas Dunn
Henry Hate
N.B
Court-House
Whitechapel
This Day publish'd Fifth Epilogue of A Dissertation on Parties
This entry advertises the fifth Epilogue of A Dissertation upon Parties in letters to Caleb D Anvers dedicated to Sir Robert Walpole. It notes a frontispiece bound copy priced at 4 shillings, with a separate frontispiece available for 6 pence, printed by R Francklin at Covent Garden.
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Caleb D’anvers
Robert Walpole
R. Francklin
Roffel-ftreet Covent-Garcers
N. B
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Cadiz
Pool
Benjamin
Linthera
Lispon
Tiber
Farwell
Newfoundland
Providence
Lifton
Aes
AI News
Foyle Armvid
Eliza
Field
Force
Peys
Durham
Bland
Ely
Trevor
Winchester
Pearce
St. ‘Asaph
Bernard
Allix
Norwich
Thomas
St. Bennet’s Paul’s Wharf
Christ Church
Conybeareee
Bangor
Batlock
Gloucester
Hayter
His Majesty’s Chapel
Whitehall
Carlile
Bolton
Walkers
Younge
Tho. Bullock
Heylin
Wilson
St. Vedaft _ Foster Lane
Hutton
Stebbing
Dorothy Jones
Fleet-Street
Vidualler
Middlesex and
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