25 Jan 1738
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Newspaper
Daily Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jan 25, 1738
Page
1
Report from Cracow, Dyefden, Berlin, and Paris covers Cardinalate for M Lip ki, royal entertainments, marriage talks of the Princess Royal to Naples, Saxon troop drafts, and court repartee. Notables include Boltza, Sulkowski, and the Weiffenfels commission’s abolition, plus Peruvian earth measurements and Arctic expeditions.
The notice lists bankrupts Joseph Willmott John Playter and William Scott from Middlesex and London. It reports today’s performances at Theatre Royal Drury Lane The Bee Gar's Opera and The Miller of Mansfield and at Covent Garden The Nest of Plays with The Dragon of Wantley High Water at London Bridge at 2:03 PM.
On February 23 the Essex Quick from Jamaica and the Prosperous Cottingham from St Christopher’s arrived. The Hanover Alliance bound for Lisbon, Roland for Lisbon, the Virginia Planter for Maryland, Booth, and the South River Merchant remain in the Downs under a WN wind.
London reports from Brussels that the Great Duke of Tuscany’s Domesticks in the city have received orders to suspend their departure. A Paris letter notes a fan and indicates recent copies of a memorial presented to the Royal Academy of Sciences by M. de Maipertius, who ventured north to make determinations.
Yesterday traders noted South Sea Stock at 101 half for opening, with South Sea Annuities at 1097 standards and New South Sea Annuities at 3 quarters for opening. Bank at 149 and three percent annuities around various shillings, plus Royal Exchange Assurance and Lon ton figures. Various exchequer and per cent notes appear, including imperial loan and mine adventure shares amid mixed premium prices.
The Amicable Society for a perpetual Assurance Office announces a general court at Serjeants Inn Fleet Street on Friday the 27th at eleven in the forenoon. A second court will be held there on Tuesday the 31st at eleven in the forenoon on special affairs. Robert Micuer, Registrar.
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