27 Jan 1742
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Newspaper
Daily Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jan 27, 1742
Page
1
A writer argues against corrupt ministers using bribes and fear tactics to cling to power. He urges the ruler to dismiss the trusted minister, allow the law to decide, and avoid provoking foreign powers, warning that pensions and promises will not shield treason. The letter favors calm reform over endless inquiry and pleads for restraint in this critical period.
Ships arrived or departed for ocean service and Atlantic ports. His Majesty’s ships Advice, Houghton, Walpole, and Outward-bound continued. Arrivals include King of Portugal, St George, Unity, Mourant, London, Leathly, Loyal Mary, John and Mary, Duke of Kingston, Dunkirk, Loyal Jane, and others from Lisbon Jamaica Carolina Dunkirk and Dunkirk. Coastal ports such as Genoa Lifton Lifton also report arrivals.
London reports the Chatham Man of War lies at the Nore and is ordered to Woolwich Dock for urgent repairs. A Spanish privateer captured the Eagle from Newfoundland en route to Dartmouth and brought it to St Sebastian's. Notices of noble deaths include Harberd Harberd of Gunton and William Lord Stawell at Hartley, with successors named.
A few days since died in Grimsthorpe Lincolnshire Hon Albemarle Bertie elder son of the Bertie family and uncle to the late Duke of Ancaster. His fortune goes to Lord Vere Bertie and Lord Montague Bertie. Also news from Greenwich of the Admiral Lestock’s wife and a jail sentence in Southwark for Henry Goulding. Imports and exports include rum brass wrought iron copper pewter and tea to and from Jamaica Barbadoes Virginia and New England. Also military news from Vienna about Bavarian defeats and a Swede ambassador appointment for Melchior Guy Dickens.
A notice lists bankrupts John Kitchen Joseph Gibbs and Benjamin Phillipps with their trades and locations. Later in the evening theatre listings announce AL1s Wect that Ends Were at Drury Lane Covent Garden Love makes a Man and The Rural Assembly and The Way of the World at Goodman's Fields.
High water at London Bridge in the afternoon and a stock price list. John Foxall and Joan DopsweatuH, assignees, warn debtors that any payment under fraudulent assignments must be returned and that debtors who delay will be sued. They accuse fraud and intend to prosecute the bankrupt Thomas Hatrion and his confederates.
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