Fraudulent Note Scheme Destroys Banker and Wine Merchant
A reader warns of a recent fraud where an impostor sought a loan from a banker by offering a note payable in one month and accepted the banker's note payable in three months. The note was discounted, interest paid, but the principal never discharged. The banker, fearing charges, paid the three months interest while the other notes remained unsettled, then faced prosecutions for usury. The pattern spread to a wine merchant of similar standing. The narrator asserts this is not mere scandal but a factual occurrence, with names withheld for prudence.
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Xury
Fisan‘ier
N.B
Me Mansfield
Rous
Alderman W
Marham
Thomas Powell
G. Rous
Matham
T’. Powell
Thomas Howell
T. B. Rous
Sir Watkin
James Robinson
King of Prussia
Edgar Parish
St. Martin’s Parish
Thomas Clavering
Gross
Plans to regulate hawkers at auction in London trade
A Lynn-Beers letter to a friend in London urges Parliament to curb hawker and pedlar auctions that saturate towns with drapery and mercery goods sold under licence. It insists on stopping in retail venues both inside and outside homes, to protect livelihoods and prevent deceitful sales practices. Also recounted is an Anecdote about a party quarrel over politics where Mrs We s provokes discussion, leading to social chaos and the breaking up of the gathering.
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Evenine
Lynn- Beers
Ats
London
TXITE
Sesson
House of Commons
M—fs W
W—s
Counsel for appellants argued monopoly in literary property
At the House of Peers the Attorney General and counsel for the appellants argued the 1772 Court of Chancery decree in favor of respondents and attacked literary property as a common law right. The hearing included references to Crown grants and royal prerogatives, with discusses of publication and property. In Worcester bribery evidence, witnesses testified about tickets and payments to freemen, and rulings were made on the admissibility of evidence. Additional items include maritime notes, theatre news, a fatal field death, and an accidental drownings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Westerday
Donaldsons
London
House of Peers
Court of Chancery
Cotfa
Taylor
Millar
Anne
Court of Session
Scotland
Lord Mansfield
Lord Camden
Edmund Burke
Dr. Goldsmith
David Garrick
Efq
Sir Watkin Lewes
Rous Hiaself
Yarney
Bumpers
T. B. Rous
Worcester
Dr. Burrell
Sir Watkin
Reformation of Public Manners at London Bridge
Notice announces high water and tides at London Bridge with precise timings for morning and night hours across days including Monday and Tuesday, detailing intervals after given times and providing specific minutes after events. The fragment alludes to a schedule of water levels and related observances in London.
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London Bridge
Theatrical Entainments and Stock Prices Listing
Draravy Lane Yefleray Kine John and The Genii perform The School for Wives at Covent Garden alongside Love in a Village and Cymbeline with The Sylphs in the evening. Also noted are varied bank and India stock prices, bonds, and a One o Clock session with several percent figures.
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Draravy-Lane
Yefleray
John
Genii
School For Wives
Harleduin
Covent-Garden
Achilles
Cymbeline
Sylphs
India
Bank
Nary
Asty
Also Mentioned on This Page
Publishea
Frankis Hargerbave
W. Otridze
Feller
New Church
Strand
Postscript
General
Avenuue Post
Marseilles
Garison
Chaunter
Lockley
Dublin
Philadelphia
Antigua
Capes
Virginia
Jonathan
Royal Exchange
Guildhall
Covent Garden Theatre
Woodward
Bromfild
Oakley
Godfrey
Church-street
Southwark
Hangingwood
Woolwich
St. Dunstans’s
William,Ayres
Bishopsgates
Miss Halfhide
Idol-lane
Tower’ Street
Hareford
Oxford-street
Birmizgiham
William Dunn
George Inn
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