Notable Speech Questions Salary and Governance Policy
A provocative discourse questions if the Speech-Maker receives the annual salary and who bears the cost. It debates the funding for colonial leadership, comparing English and colonial stipends, and asks whether officials act for public good or personal gain. The piece questions merit criteria and the dignity of office, and ends by asking if leaders should be exposed like Hogarth's depictions or guided by original aims.
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Treland Dublin 12 Brigadier Generals and a Galway wreck find
The week reports Brigadier Generals for St George and Irwin. Miss Elizabeth Piers wed. Retirement and death notes: Robert Lindsey, a judge, and Anthony Waters, a 96 year old merchant. Wreck off Galway Bay yields gold dust ingots and bags of dollars, with guards preventing theft.
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Treland
Dublin
St. George and Irwin
Frianeis Wye
Bay
Galway
Port News Chronicle of Ship Arrivals and Departures
PORT NEWS. Deals and arrivals list multiple ships bound for Jamaica Virginia Barbadoes and Lisbon with outward-bound vessels and man of war. Arrived vessels include Houghton from Faro Dublin Merchant from Dublin Anne from Barbadoes Hector Rogers from Carolina James Frigate from Gibraltar and more at Spithead Cork Dublin and Madeira ports with several ports listed for various destinations.
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Port News
Deal
Fran
Amelia
Martin
East India
Carteret
Chevalier
Jamaica
Mary
Skedall
Barbadoes
George Gally
Gowen
Virginia
Ross
Morrison
Mahon
St. Anthony
Cook
Lisbon
Sutherland
Arriv
Houghton
Collins
Faro
Dublin
Thomas
S. W. Dover
Fan
Anne
Forst
Hector Rogers
Carolina
James
Gowland
Gibraltar
Spithead
Antelope
Maynard
Cork
White
St. Michael
Admonitions and Maritime Notices in London Chronicle
A dense London page blends classical orations and naval notices with Admiralty appointments, privateer actions, stock prices, theater listings, and a Bartholomew’s Hospital wish. It records Captaincy changes, a Brightman’s taxes receiver, a fatal illness, a ship captured by a Spanish privateer, a cargo accident, escapes from prison, and market data amid 18th century press prose.
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West-Indies
Hogarth
London
St. Michael’s
Thetis
Corinthia
Immora
VLRG
Her
Board of Admiralty
Dodd
Dragon
Blandford
Lords Commissioners of
the Treasury
Richard Lewis
Brecknock
White-Lion-Court
Cornhill
Prime
Roouns
Lifton
Cooper
Weite
Pulteney
Cape
Purcell
Rock
Gebraltar
Alexander, Sanders
Cherbourg
St. Mary’s Leves
London Bridge
Mary Riley
Newgate
de Veil
James Robisson
Mary Progeing
Poultry Compter
Theatre Royal
Drury Lane
Covent Garden
Damascus
South Sea
Eths Co
New South Sea
Bank
Indiana
Royal Exchange Assurance
India
Cenc
Mieror
St. Bartholomew's Hospital
William Barry
Samuel Nash
Deceas
South-Sea- House
The
South-Sea Company
Knight
Bakot
Aid Company
Aid
Garraway
Exchange- Alley
East India Company
King’s Warehouse
Joan Barnes
Qin van Mildert
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