Foreigners as part owners of British ships debated in House
The House met to consider whether foreigners may own shares in British ships trading to Jamaica Africa and America. Testimony showed foreign investors like Maflay/Maffoy held blocks in Ipswich and Manning causing delays and fees. Bills were proposed to curb such purchases and to compensate prisoners’ keepers with county rates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. Sigma
Gilvey
Ols
Alcock
Simon
Ipswich
Jamaica
Maifou
Norice
Admiralty
Guitom-house
Maffon
Maffay
Fuller
Oliver
Popham
Lord Folktone
Thomas Clavering
Folkstone
Field
Bread substitute promises cheaper grain in England
To the Editor of the GENERAL EveNine Post, Paris, Feb. 11, 1773. The writer expresses hope that bread corn prices may fall in England by using fuggedaneum as a substitute. He notes experiments in London with wheat and potato flour and mentions prior letters on the economical subject while clarifying he is not the inventor, merely the introducer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Great Britain
London
Dublin
Alsace
Basil
Switzerland
Orleans
France
EveNine Post
Paris
Pique Miyself
England
Reflection on the National Debt and Africa Trade
A historical treatise argues England must extinguish the national debt by expanding trade into Africa. It praises Senegal and Bambuk mines, discusses Portuguese access to Gold, and warns against piracy while urging peaceful settlement and commerce. It links debt relief to strong Atlantic commerce and humane diplomacy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
Portugal
West Indies
Senegal
Brazil
Mexico
Peru
French India Company
Campayxon
The
India Company
M. Depremeniad
Dawid
Sinegal
Bambuck
Niger
Gambia
Africa
America
Europe
Berne
Cardinal Richlien
France
Russia
Sweden
Denmark
Poland
Germany
Holland
Flanders
Sofals
Mozambique
Milinda
Solomony
Tyre
Asia
Buruge
Faria
Barbary
Mafiniffa
The Curious Case of Honour and Virtue in Society
A dissection of how wealth and status shape the idea of honour, arguing that true virtue endures beyond fortune. It contrasts lavish displays and extorted wealth with genuine character, asserting virtue is immutable and sovereigns cannot create it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Evinino Post
Bps
Lecvis
Love God Love Yourself Love Your Fellow Creatures
The passage argues that the mutual ignorance of duties and the depravity of passions stem from unchecked emotion. It urges quieting the murmur of passion so reason can guide, and prescribes loving God, oneself, and others as essential obligations. Piety proceeds from faith, wisdom from the second, and social virtues from the third.
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Reason
God
Masquerade at Pantheon Delights High Society Attendance
Thursday night at the Pantheon doors opened after ten to a mixed crowd of fashionables and commoners. About 1800 guests filled the rooms as lamps lit up a truce of splendor. among the attendees were the Dukes Marlborough Buccleugh Rosburgt Devonshire and many noble figures in domino. Revelers wore varied costumes from Grecian, Vandyke, and Polonaise to harlequin, with pageantry and music until dawn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pantheon
Duke
Duchess of Marlborough
Duchess of Buccleugh
Duke of
Rosburgt
Rosburgt, Duke of Devonshire
John
Frederick Cavendish
Egrenmtoné
Mr. Herbert
Betty
Northington
Bridget Lane
Bolingbroke
St. John
Ditto
Mary Fox
Duchéss of Richmond
George Lenox
George Ditto
Lord Palmerston
Lord Bateman
Essex
Ann Capell
Diana Capell
Beauclerk
Diana Ditto
Festers
James
Panton
Pye
John Damer
Lord Cholmondley
Maccartney
Mife Gardner
Col. Fitzroy
Coote
Duchess of Argyle
Betty’ Hamilton
Jane Henley
Mary Ditto
Francis Molyneux
General Monkton
Col. Monkton
Hanger
Horneck
Dagge
Mendez
Mr. Craddock
Lord Stanley
Mr. Stanley
Felve Fordre de Motelot
Richard Adams
Watkin Williams Wynne
Mr. Farrer
Mr. Andrews
Mr. Stroud
Wits Guyon
Mr. Colman
Mr. Fisher
Dawson
Mr. Abhley
Capt. Thompson
Mr. Kelly
Reddish
Almida
Mrs. Kelly
Mr. Dawes
Morning Post
Miss West
Knights of the Bath
Clara Haywood
Fanny Herbert
Sybils
Darley
Newmarket
Mungo
Merlin
Angria
Merry
Andrew
Pentweazle
Lewes
Covent-garden
Punch
Mercury
Elfrida
Virgin
Kitely
Momus
Henry the Sixth
Cyrus
Jachimo
Falstaff
Touchstone
Richard
Norhumberland
Marlborough
Lady Bingley
Lord Dartington
Mr. Tuffnal
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