Privateer activity and prize news from Europe
News from Madrid and Vienna report privateers capturing English ships near Cadiz and Smyrna, with prizes and confiscations pushing total gains above 3,000,000 crowns. Dispatches detail Turkish and Imperial movements, winter quarters plans, and British diplomatic couriers, while naval deployments and port arrivals across Dover Deal and Gravesend outline spring readiness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Valentia
Smyrna
Cadiz
Englih
West-Indies
Bay
Honduras
Calvary Isles
America
Warsaw
Bender
Munich
Tsooys
Belgrade
Semlin
D Rufia
Porte
France
Bannat of
Temeswar
Semendria
Nizza
Widdin
London
Copenhagen
O& 10
Norway
Admiralty
Noth
Port News Arrivals at Falmouth and Plymouth
The port report notes arrivals including the Augustus Brook and the Mary Gover from Virginia, the King George Packet Uring from Portsmouth, and the Expedition Packet for Lisbon. Also listed are the Aaron Hamer from Montserrat, the Robert and John Johnson from Virginia, and the Betty Johnson from Maryland with the Unity Wheeler from St Kitts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Falmouth
Augustus
Brook
Mary
Emperors Letter on Peace Talks and Belgrade Siege
The dispatch from Vienna quotes the Emperor’s grief over the Neuperg preliminaries and vows to uphold justice, despite failures by officers. It also notes hopes for favorable terms with the Sublime Porte and a united peace with the Czarina.Rome reports Pope promotions and a push to dispatch church business before departure, while Lorraine notes 7000 militia to be raised in the Dutchy. The Bath mourns the death of William Duke of Manchester, with succession to Lord Robert Montagu, and a sale of adulterated goods at the Long-Room in the Custom-House.
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London
Vienna
Czarina
Count Neuperg
Belgrade
Ottoman Empire
Choezim
Sublime Porte
Wallis
Neuperg
Rome
Lorrain
France
Bath
William Duke of Manchester
Robert Montagu
Huntingdon
Tea Prices and Naval Rumors Fill London Summary
Commerce letters report tea fetched high prices amid draymen and druggists objections while ship captures and man-of-war sweeps dominate the river. Capt. Steward seeks protection for his ship’s crew as Excise weighs a case against Mrs. Holmes over Spiritual Liquors. A mahogany apprentice dies under a falling pile of planks as London schedules court sittings for Michaelmas term 1739 and foreign goods move in and out of the ports.
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Steward
East India Company
St. Helena
Admiralty
Commissioners of Excise
Holmes
Mary Thomas
Gregory
Beachane
White-Cross-Street
Middlesex
London
William Lee
His Majesty
John’ Willes
Kat
S Court of Common Pleas
Michaelinas
Stockholm
Hambourg
Holland
France
Portugal
Ireland
Eldin Howard
Miss Temple
Market Prices for South Sea and Related Securities
Yesterday trades show South Sea Stock at 931. Coach and South Sea Annuities quoted around 1091.8 for opening, with new South Sea Annuities at 1071.8. Bank rate notes include Bank 136.3 for a quarter, Premium India 155, Three per Cent Annuities 98. Quarter figures extend to Million Bank 114 and Royal Exchange Assurance 1.5, London ditto 112. Salt tallies quoted from half to xx half, Seven per Cent Emperor's Loan rog 1.5, Three per Cent Exchequer Orders at 1.5, and Lottery Tickets priced at 1.95.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Sea
Bank
Prem
India
Royal Exchange Assurance
London
Sale by candle at Lloyd's Coffee-House Lombard Street
Auction notice for six parts of four messuages in Cozens Lane Thames Street offered for lease for 68 years at 621 per year with 5s ground rent. Sale on Tuesday the 16th instant at five o'clock in the afternoon. Enquiries to Mr. Radcliffe, attorney near Filamongers Hall Thames Street.
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Lloyd’s Coffee-House
Lombard-Street
Cozens-Lane
Thames-Street
Radcliffe
Filamrongers Hall
Thames Street
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Madrid
Dolphin
Bradley
Jamaica
Dover
Arsiv
Hartlepool
Davis
Bristol
Cobham
Greenock
Deal
Eleanor
Portsmouth
Dorothy Douglas
Antigua
Gravesend
Frederick, Loney
Virginis
Hannah, Turner
Port News
Theatre Royal
Drury Lane
Robin Good- Fellow
Covent-Garden
Bridge
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