10 May 1743
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Newspaper
Daily Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
May 10, 1743
Page
1
Reports from Hollang and Stockholm describe Aron Nolcken's audience with the king and pending terms of a Sweden Russia peace, including Finland boundaries and potential trade gains. Dispatches from Vienna Prague Spires and Francfort update on war mobilizations, fortifications, conscriptions, and troop movements across the Holy Roman Empire, with British and Turkish considerations and a May 15-16 timeline.
In the Downs the London Merchant Hill remains with the Cane down and failed. The Augusta, Tryton, and Lyon proceed to Hamburg and Liverpool, while the Transport stays. The Alexander and Isabella, under Nicholson from Leghorn bound for London, have arrived off Pool.
A London report records John Bradford chosen Alderman at Cripplegate in place of the late Sir John Williams. It notes marriages of Floyd to Anne Darking in Winchester and Snow to Miss Sparrow at Spitalfields. Obituaries include Archibald Carmichael and Major Leigh of Cheshire. Also mentions James Ryley and Samuel Tonfon deaths, appointment of Richardson as Gentleman of the Chapel Royal, and two bribe arrests for selling spirits under the current Act.
The Beecar's Opera will be performed this evening at Drury Lane Theatre Royal. High Water at London Bridge at noon. A London stock and bond market update is provided, listing prices for South Sea stock annuities, Bank, India bonds, and other securities. Also notice from the City of London committee to lease one of the fifteen Sea Coal Meters, with a sitting date tomorrow at four o'clock in the Guildhall Council Chamber.
TE Committee for Letting the Bridge-House Lands gives notice of intendments to lease seven lots for 21 years and two buildings for 61 years in the North End of London Bridge and Great and Little Friday Street. Proposals invited at the Guildhall tomorrow at four in the afternoon with printed particulars from the Comptroller at Bridge-Yard Southwark.
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