14 Jul 1738
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Newspaper
Daily Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jul 14, 1738
Page
1
A reader praises justice against knaves and discusses a three ton snuff seizure. He argues care to avoid poison in the town, notes a prior lace seizure harmed local manufacture, and suggests rewarding customs officers by burning smuggled goods or shipping them abroad to protect domestic manufacturers. He signs as Sam.
In Paris on July 19 a suit between the Duke of Luxembourg as plaintiff and the Count de Creuilly as defendant over an estate valued at 45,000 Livres yearly proceeded in Parliament. The court ruled against the Count, awarding costs, damages, and interest. Nuns of Compiegne presented the King with a grand confection resembling the forest of Compiegne in miniature, a token of thanks for the palace.
Port News from Dover lists outward-bound ships limited to royal vessels New Castle Augusta Hannah Story for Orders and Townsend from Holland for Lisbon. Arrived from Antigua and New England and Jamaica are multiple vessels with unnamed others. Several ships from Guernsey Dunkirk Antigua Barbadoes and Maryland passages noted.
Letter items describe the entry into Gaeta by the King and Queen, public celebrations in Capo di Chino, local acts and gifts, papal consistory developments, court appointments, and notable marriages. Included are judicial notices, a venison feast, hospital reports, and dispatches of couriers to Madrid and Dresden.
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