10 Mar 1737
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Newspaper
Daily Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Mar 10, 1737
Page
1
A London letter dated March 2, 1736, from Tallow-Chandler Candelarius Londinensis urges the Daily Post author to publish a critique of under-fellers and excise enforcement harming the trade. He argues penalties are mitigated too easily, undermining honest traders and the public, and calls for inspection reform and fair rewards for officers.
Yesterday the mail from France reports a Spanish engineer imprisoned at the Castle of St John Baptist after tearing a government arret forbidding duel with another Spanish officer. Milan dispatch notes Parma and Placenza deputies remain dissatisfied with recent German general regulations seen as harmful to their countries.
March 8 report lists ships remaining in the Downs Jennett Crookenden bound for Barbadoes the Pegasus Ramsey for the Streights and Turtle Cove New for Bristol Two ships passed down this forenoon names not known Wind S arrivals at Gravesend Duke of Kingston Merington from Bologone William Borrell from Leghorn William and Mary Read from Guernsey Priscilla Williams from Virginia Braganza Lyon from Lisbon James and Elizabeth Norcom from Seville.
The issue records royal and noble movements from Paris to Vienna and Langres to Chambery, plus a Chelsea wedding of Hawley and Bolton heir. It notes Draper appointed Chief Surveyor of Excise duties, Diamond ship fitted for service, and Captain Knowles to Guiney with Oxford’s Swale reassigned. A 700-pound tea seizure near Deal triggers forfeiture, with smuggling confrontations described. Local trials in Oxford condemn two for horse stealing and one for highway robbery. Collet sentenced to execution.
Last Monday a London innkeeper at Upton was robbed by three footpads while watering his horse near his house, with offenders fleeing toward Enfield. John Brady, a smuggling suspect, was moved under habeas corpus to Rochester for trial, the first case under the new statute. Market and theatre notices, finance quotes, and coin prices follow.
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