10 Sep 1742
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Newspaper
Daily Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Sep 10, 1742
Page
1
News from across Europe reports ongoing conferences between French and Swedish envoys, with Paris urged to end the war on terms deemed honorable. Dispatches note Austrian and Prussian maneuvers, naval actions near Leghorn and Marcom, and troop movements from Vienna to Bohemia as conflicts unfold across the continent.
On Friday laft arrived Charles Town sees His Majestys Ship the Rose under Capt Thomas Frankland send four Prizes. The Rose, a new 20 gun ship, chased and boarded the Spanish privateer Don Juan de Laon Hand inio Coman 5 with two ships and a schooner bound from Maryland to London Whitehaven and Boston. The privateer struck English colours then fired a broadside into the Rose. After a two hour dispute the privateer surrendered. The two prize ships were captured. the schooner fled shoreward with five Spaniards and two English prisoners aboard. The two prisoners escaped Liberty during the voyage, killed three Spaniards and bound two, then joined the man of war and prizes with joy. This gives Captain Frankland nine prizes.
Port News reports arrivals and outward-bound vessels on September 8. Ships include the Sophia Whitwood bound for St Kitts, the Mary's Reign Kelly from Barbadoes, Hannah Elizabeth Jones from Gibraltar, and the Grizell Reynolds from Jamaica. Also listed are vessels from Smyrna Gibraltar Maryland Virginia and Jamaica along with British ports Bristol Spithead Gibraltar Amsterdam Jersey and Port Mahon.
London news notes that the East India Company plans to place surplus funds, after ten years of profits and seven percent dividends, to discharge part of its debt by Michaelmas. Reports cover marriages of merchants Warburton and Riggles, deaths and pensions, a dismissed captain, prize news from Gibraltar, burglaries, and trials at the Old Bailey with several capital convictions and transportation sentences.
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