10 Jul 1741
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Newspaper
Daily Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jul 10, 1741
Page
1
A letter to the Daily Post defends the Hanover Treaty arguing it serves Britain by checking Austrian and French trade growth, stoking anti Vienna alignment, and avoiding costly European war. The author cites Utrecht and Vienna accords, warns against propping up France, and asserts the treaty’s role in stabilizing public debt and taxation while maintaining peace.
July 8 reports vessels arriving and sailing from Jamaica Liverpool Portsmouth and Virginia with names Basilisk Bomb William and Thomas Convener and other ships. Gravesend records Essex Betty and several ships from Stetin Middlebourg Riga Ham bourge Norway pass by on the same date.
London reports sailors being ordered to Greenwich moorings to receive troop officers if needed. A Turkish Company court chose Thomas Carleton of Broxbourne as Smyrna consul, replacing the late Francis Williams. Francis Matters, a city sheriff candidate, died on the road to Lincolnshire. Capt Wirchild of St Christopher’s Trade died in Grosvenor Street. Mrs Caiar, widow of Sir Charles Gefar, died in Grosvenor Street. A courtroom at Guildhall found John Gray the inventor, Richard Newsham’s patent not a new invention. A Cheshire barn burned after gun discharge. Jamaica letters say Admiral Vernon’s fleet reached Jamaica in good health. five Spanish prizes reported. defiance may have captured five ships.
Tuesday a cart with Brandy was seized near Lewisham by Excise officers. smuggler horses fled leaving a poor jade in the cart. Wednesday several wagons with Tea and a Deputy robbed at Newington. Daily Advertiser notes Dutch and French reactions to defeats before Carthagena. Trade movements include raw silk, iron, cordage and silver coin exports to Holland, Barbados, Carolina, Dublin, Pennsylvania and New York. High Water at London Bridge recorded.
Prices for South Sea Stock and South Sea Annuities show minor shifts. Bank shares, Royal Exchange, India Bonds, and various government and private securities display a range of quotations, including Prem. Mine Adventurers and Exchequer related notes, indicating a broad, mixed securities day with no single dominant mover.
London authorities announce a Friday sitting at the Guildhall on July 16 to receive proposals from bidders for delivering six hundred thirty chaldrons of coal for the use of the city poor across the wards.
Notices warn that John Waite a Bank of England clerk missing since May 13 has absconded with East India Bonds of substantial value. A reward of three hundred pounds plus two hundred pounds offered by the Governor and Company, totaling five hundred pounds, for information leading to capture and securing him.
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