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Lottery and state funding notes from Paris and Amsterdam
The paper reports on Duke Regent measures to suppress state bills and a new West India Company fundraising effort surpassing 30 million sequins. It details a monthly lottery scheme with tickets at 25 sols, 74 prizes per drawing, and annuities payable on delivery of equivalent state bills, plus provisions for prize values and monthly draws. It also notes harbour demolition orders, troop movements to Italy, privateering in Amsterdam, and Irish parliamentary actions in Dublin and London social events.
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Amsterdam
Paris
New West India Company
Otober
Mardyke
Franckfort
Elefor Palatine
Lower Rhine
Westphalia
Iealy
Buron Gertz Sas
Deux Pents
Sweden
Carescroon
Englis
Dantuck
Rijxhoofden
Gottemberg
Hague
Marquis de Beretty Landy
Spain
Dublin
House of Commons of Ireland
Martis
John Leigh
Leigh
House of Hanover
Henry Smith
Drogheda
Mr. Leigh
Withrew
Hanover
Mercury
William Purefoy
Efys
Brewer
K. William
James
Earl of Rochester
Altho
London
Prince
Southwark Fair
Bullock and
Leigh's Booth
Newemarket