17 Oct 1739
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Newspaper
Daily Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Oct 17, 1739
Page
1
Reports from Stockholm and Vienna detail court appointments and military actions, with declarations of war chatter, fleet movements, and fortification orders. London items note stock activity, theatre listings, family notices, and a large consignment sale, reflecting a bustling imperial news cycle.
Port News reports April 15 details with all outward-bound ships halted or delayed due to very strong easterly and northeasterly winds. The gale-bound weather disrupts schedules, ships groan under heavy squalls, and captains await calmer seas before resuming passage.
Reports from Francfort say the States of Ju liers and Bergues met at Duffeldorp to present their grievances to the Elector Palatine's commissaries. They note differences between the French Court and Swabian Circle over contributions due since the Rhine campaigns and mention an Imperial Rescript from Ratisbon about the Empire's extraordinary subsidy for the Turkish war.
This Day is published Price is The Second Edition of the Account of the Expedition of the British Fleet to Sicily from 1718 to 1720. Commanded by Sir George Byne later Viscount Torrington. Compiled from Admiral Byne manuscripts and other papers. Printed for J and R Tonson. The piratical edition claimed as R West is a mangled abridgment.
List of newly published books covers Souths Sermons Shaftsbury Keill Trapp Welwood Philip Horace translations Bentley notes Wylde Practical Surveyor Laurence Aristonetus Love Letters Lewis Greek translations and noble genealogies. Printed for H. Lintot.
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