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Newspaper
Daily Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Oct 15, 1742
Page
2
The passage argues that protecting liberty and posterity justifies stronger measures than those in the current bill. It contends that securing freedom from private theft and murder is a lesser goal than preventing national corruption and slavery by exposing and punishing national robbers. It frames the issue as a fight to defend three nations from grave danger.
From Mantua and Modena dated September 28 reports the Duke ceding forts and Sardinia ordering a garrison released. Leypsick notes actions near Prague shift to Bohemia frontiers. A banker purchases woollen cloth and linen for the French army. Munich describes Minuzzi’s destruction of Austrians. The city news mentions the night gang of robbers and a thirteen year old suspect confessing much of the murders.
His Majesty's Ship the Shrewsbury sailed for the River but returned and remained at the Falmouth, while the Rainbow from Antigua arrived off the Isle of Wight. News mentions the Nepruane tender and gunboats sighted nearby.
On Wednesday last the Great Seal passed to Joseph Smith of the Office of Serjeant at Arms in Ordinary, with a dispensation for Rev. Thomas Hutchinson to hold Cocking and Horsham vicarages. Nearby, Under Secretary David Mallet wed Lucy Elstob. a man named Lincoln from Loughton died wealthy. a cave discovery near Royston revealed a Bell shaped hollow with religious carvings. Eighteen prisoners at the Old Bailey were tried, three convicted of murder and other crimes. six sentenced to transportation, nine acquitted.
The trial of William Bird for murder in St Martin's Round-house will open today. Reports warn of several nearby ship captures by a Spanish privateer, including the Young Neptune and the Newton bound Madeira to Mountsbay, taken into the Canaries. Also noted are the James and John Burr taken off Beachy and brought to Havre-de-Grace. Tonight's performances include King Richard the Third at Drury Lane and at Covent Garden, with tide and schedule details for London Bridge.
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