East India Directors Controversy and Mr Hume Defenses
A letter to eighty seven East-India Stock proprietors condemns a list of directors and defends Alexander Hume. It questions the promoters of harmful accusations, urges fair selection by proprietors, and argues Hume would protect company interests even against foreign rivals. The correspondence cites Daily Advertiser material and urges scrutiny of rival claims.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pentack’s
Abraham Adams
Robert Addams
Miles Barne
Win.Billers
Stephen Biffle
Richard Blount
Christopher Burrow
Richard Chauncey
Charles Colborn
John Emmerson
Peter Godfrey
William Goffeline
Sam
Daily Advertiser
Daily Post
C. D
Heathcore
A.B
A. H
Alexander Hume
Hume
Tmany
Port News Deal and Arrivals at Gravesend and Malaga
The report notes ships in port with cargo and captains involved, listing deals for the Mary, Newton bound for Barbadoes and the Alex ander Ruffell for Maryland, the Success Bread for Macfeillés, and the Fair Henry Douglass bound for Ogorto. Arrivals include the Antelope from Gravesend, the Rachel from Malaga aboard Don Carlos, and the Mary from Calais.
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Port News
Deal
Mary
Newton
Barbadoes
Alexander
Ruffell
Maryland
Bread
Macfeillés
London News Roundup of Appointments and Trials
London reports Lieutenant-General Thomas Pearce named Governor of Londonderry and Culmoge Port in Ireland, replacing the deceased Owen Wynne. Also covered are a bishop seeking medical advice, a Winchester fellow's death, estates and legacies, parliamentary appointments, South Sea annuities schemes, ship storms at Deal, theater concerns, local executions in Suffolk and Bristol, and trade imports and exports with various nations. High water noted at London Bridge.
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London
Thomas Pearce
Londonderry
Culmoge Port
Kingdom of Ireland
Owen Wynne
Deceas
John Wynn
Bath and Wells
Cloysters
Westminster Abbey
Tooting
Surrey
Cunningham
Winchester College
Coney Court
Edward Turners
Sir Edward Turner
Simon Durand
Swynhop
Stanigatt
Lincoln
Marmaduke Alington
John Barnard
Knut
Charles Peers
South Sea
Yoo
Deal
North
Downs
Henry
Douglass
Calais
Sandwich Bay
House of Commons
Hunter
Chatham
Gravesend
Rochester
John Crisp
John Brutter
John Kitchen
Burrell Kitchen
Ipswich
St Edmund’s Bury
Bristol
Michael Foster
John Govey
Lewis
Redcliff Hill
Henry James
Winnand
Green
William Meredith
James Sainsbury
Boar’s Head
William
Patrick
Stratton
Elizabeth Smith
Hamburera
Ireland
Dunkirk
Spain
Canary
Maryland
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Followine KO
Harry Gough
Samuel Hyde
Michael Impey
Henry Lascelles
Edward Lovibond
Henry Lloyd
Matthew Martin
William Pomeroy
Jones Raymond
John Salter
James Winter Josiah Wordsworth
King’s Theatre
Hay-Market
Cal’d’ Demetrius
Theatre - Royal
Drury- Lane
TenDer Husgann
Defer
Theatre-Royal
Covent-Garden
King John
Royal Chace
Lincoln’s- Inn -Fields
Fonp Hussand
London Bridge
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