24 Mar 1739
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Newspaper
Daily Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Mar 24, 1739
Page
1
Overseas war news claims Grand Vizir orders large detachment toward Walachia while Ottoman forces may use bayonets. reports of Belgrade and Adrianople movements. Local items include official appointments at the South Sea and Old Annuity offices, accidents, drownings, a murder trial verdict, smuggling seizures, and diverse market data with prices and tips on licenses and plays.
The Outward-bound fleet all fail except the Swedish Ship remains at order. Winds blow E N E. Passengers and vessels listed include the Providence, Nelson, and the Two Brothers Hanson from Norway, Lady Eliza Barnes from Amsterdam, Flanders Merchant Calinde from Ostend, Nancy Alcock from Middlebourg.
London report from Vienna mentions Field Equipages of the Velde Marshals Count Wallis sent to Hungary on the sixteenth instant New Style with plans to assemble the Imperial Army within five or six days. Stockholm letters say the Swedish Diet committee contends several counts should be stripped of senate posts and granted a pension of 3000 to 4000 pela?ns. Venice notes the Porte gathers provisions for the Morea and Turkish Albania, while Belgrade reports Christians rising against Turkish oppression amid punitive measures. Spanish officers are en route to their regiments for an April general review, and news arrives of a fleet head for the West Indies.
The notice lists shows at Theatre Royal Digry Lane with Caro and Harlequin Shipcreed and at Covent Garden Theatre Royal with Ange Lica and Meporo.
An 18th century catalog entry advertises AX Introduction to Astronomy and Astronomical Lectures at Oxford by Joan Kells Alderman Fellow of the Royal Society and Professor of Astronomy. Illustrated with 25 copper plates. Printed for Henry Lintot at the Cross Keys near St Dunstan’s Church Fleet Street. Also offers The Practical Surveyor 5 or The Art of Land Mestring by Samuel Wyld. Price 3s.
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