21 May 1737
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Newspaper
Daily Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
May 21, 1737
Page
1
The piece contrasts Last Year and This Year lottery plans, critiques public opinion on the 3 per Cent. Excise Bill, and argues that public clamor harms financial clarity. It explains money costs, interest effects, and moral aims, concluding lotteries burden adventurers more this year while defending cautious public discourse.
A terse financial notice states that Cent. makeup the Sim of 101 is to be paid in and references the Adventurer. It notes an interest of 61. 9s. on every ticket from payment time until repayment. The wording implies a loan with accruing interest linked to ticket funds.
Mail from Holland reports Baron Dahlman has not agreed on any peace preliminary. Observers doubt Congress success as Turkish movements appear to be a feint to delay Russian advance. Empress dispatches plenipotentiaries to Warsaw while a fortress commandant notes 80,000 Ottoman troops near the Wiester and Russian forces marching toward the Bog.
London reports a vast, unprecedented wartime buildup as armies in Hungary are structured into four bodies with tens of thousands of troops. The plan includes 70,000 men plus auxiliaries under Count Seckendorf and a separate Conduit command for the Prince of Saxe-Hildeburghausen. The campaign targets strategic islands and aims to sever Tartar-Porte communications, signaling a determined imperial push.
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