28 Jun 1840
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Newspaper
Daily Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jun 28, 1840
Page
1
Reports arrive from Holland and Constantinople on May 4 with warnings of Turk Persia conflict and Russian tensions. Fleet movements near Cadiz and Ferrol, Swedish and Austrian diplomacy, and rumors of Corsican kingship unfold as European powers brace for looming hostilities.
Port news notes arrivals at multiple ports including the St. Patrick Hester from London the Mercury Tyler from Attica Antigua and the Sea Nymph Harman from London. Also mentions ships Mary Worms Belman from Hamburg and others with details on wind and fate of a vessel named Philadelph hs.
The committee for letting Bridge House Lands gives notice to meet in the Guildhall London on Wednesday the ad Day of July at four o clock to receive sealed proposals from those willing to contract to fell and deliver into Bridge Yard Southwark one hundred and thirty leads of long stout elm timber and sixty feet pieces. timber sizes specified with loads and minimum lengths, as comptroller William Egred notes.
The item records that N B is filing petition number six, marking another formal step in a ongoing request. The brief note notes the repeated petitioning without detailing the cause or outcome.
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