27 Jan 1743
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Newspaper
Daily Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jan 27, 1743
Page
1
A dated notice concerning the South Sea Stock, published January 26, 1742, addressed to the proprietors. The content outlines matters of stock ownership and related proceedings in a period-appropriate tone.
A critique responding to the Observator about Mr Knight and the South Sea Company. It cites Acts of Parliament, Subscription votes, and Treasury records to argue Knight’s guilt and the company’s losses. The author details cash claims, deficits, and Knight’s flight, asserting Parliamentary justice and stock handling in 1720 1721.
The bulletin reports on Dutch and Italian gossip about the Holstein election and relations with Russia, a Naples audience with an English captain, Cardinal Cibo’s death, and French orders to Levant settlers. It notes fevers in Genoa and Lombardy, Persia affairs, and Koult Kan’s edict against Haly. It covers Port News with ships, arrivals, and naval movements in Deal Dover and Portsmouth several ports.
In Manheim on January 21 reports claim French forces are building large magazines near the city and moving into Wirtemberg. From Alsace word spreads of men preparing to cross the Rhine into Bavaria as a treaty between the King of Wen and the Prussian Majesty appears to note provincial alignment along the body of the union.
From Aberdeen we learn that on the 43rd inst. died at Elfick the Lady of Sir Alexander Bannerman of Elfick Barr. Mr. David Moncrief Advocate and Mr. John Philip of Greenlaw are appointed Deputy Remembrancers in his Majesty's Court of Exchequer in place of the deceased Mr. James Bogle.
London reports a peerage dispute heading to the House of Lords amid a noted bid to unravel a historic intrigue. Obituaries note Roger Bowling Ef, a wealthy bachelor. Mr. Smith, longtime Exeter Exchange clerk. and Mrs Williams, generous widow. A tea consignment was seized after a wagon stop on Fishstreet Hill, and a boat capsized near Chelsea Beach. A Grocer, Mr Coleman of Berwick Street, was attacked by two men in Fig Lane.
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