Mail from Holland reports Russian troops marching to Warsaw
Postscript from Hambriece notes that Warsaw will be reinforced by 3260 Russian troops marching toward the city and a further 6000 from the same nation to quarter nearby. Diet reforms are delayed until September. Berlin issues ordinance abridging all law faculties. Reports from Silesia state Jesuits face the same fate as elsewhere.
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Holland
Hambriece
Fes
Warsaw
Berlin
Silesia
Lords Proceedings and Private Bills Reported in Parliament
The Lords met at 2:30 PM to hear private bill reports from Lords Committees and to examine witnesses on road and enclosure bills. The Friday case from Scotland was heard with interlocutory rulings reviewed by Lord Cathcart and the Lord Chancellor. Duke of Richmond moved to lay before the House treaties with the Landgrave of Heffe Caficl and signalled further motions on German princes’ treaties. The bills on import provisions and Doncaster roads and Leigh Inclosure advanced through committees, and the House adjourned at 4:15 PM.
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London
House of Lords
Monver
Fesrvanrs
Lords
Court of Session
Scotland
Mc'Dowal
Gray
Nand
Calhoun
Lord Cathcart
Duke of Richmond
Heffe
Doncaster-soads
Relief bill for Kilmainham out pensioners debated in Commons
In the House of Commons on Feb 17 and 19 the committee reported heads of a relief bill for Kilmainham out pensioners showing daily allowances of four pence and six pence for Chelsea Hospital, with arrears and usurious bonds to be voided. Debate touched on coin embargo and proclamations, pledges to ship beef to France, and an order to lay before the Lord Lieutenant the two proclamations and royal letters.
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House of Commons
Ingland
House
John Blaquiere
Kilmainham
Chelsea Hospital
England
Beresford
Daniel
Barry
Gardiner
George Ogie
France
William Osborne
Petition to dissolve marriage and permit remarriage
A petition was presented to the Lords by Dr. E requesting leave to introduce a bill dissolving his marriage and enabling a second marriage. Leave was granted, the bill presented and read a first time.
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Honare of Peers
Wircew er Committee session and political turmoil in early Parliament
A dense, early report describes the Wircew er Committee meeting at ten with Mansfield and Walth involved. The debate over witnesses and bribery claims led to an adjournment before any verdict. Subsequent items include naval dispatches, proclamations against colonial correspondence, ship distress, city finances, a Chamberlain poll, and obituaries.
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Wircev Er
Mansfield
Walth
Lee
Walsh
Rous
House of Commons
Portsmouth
Massachusect
M.ntomery
Quebec
Col. Arnold
New-York
West-Indies
Providence
Deal
Chamber of London
Stephen Theodore Janssen
Chamberlain
Hopkins
Wilkes
King
Covent-garden Theatre
Edw. Thompson
Navy
Iveng
Hoxton
Clive’s Head
Spitalfields
New- Bord-street
Marseilles
Charles Dowderwell
William Dowderwell
Salisoury
Bouverie
Witegunt Falletone
Fal
Radnor
North Carolina storekeeper slain over debt dispute
The Glasgow Journal reports a cruel act in North Carolina where a storekeeper owed money to a planter and provincial officer. When payment failed and security was refused, the planter accused him of opposing American liberty and had him brought before a committee. He was then shot dead on the spot after a member offered to settle the dispute.
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Liberty ‘of
America
Glasgow Journal
East India Company General Court for Directors Election
East India House notice from February 21 1746 announces a General Court at Leadenhall Street on April 13 from nine in the morning to eight in the evening to elect six directors for four years. It states voting rights based on own stock holdings: twelve months ownership yields one vote, 30001 shares two votes, 6000 shares five votes, 10000 or more four votes, with voting restricted to stock held in one’s own name.
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East-India House
United Company of Merchants of England
East-Indies
Leadenhall-street
Letter to No Facobite on signatures and Jacobite wit
A reader defends signer ethics and notices misread critiques in a heated exchange. The writer disputes No Facobite's claims about signatures like Furius Restauratus and No Facebus, argues the issue is content not name, and asserts support for a balanced view of Mr. W and Americans. The note ends with a pledge to avoid personal praise or self praise in this public discourse.
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Evenine Post
Furius Resaurans
Funis
Funius Restauratus
House of Commons
Perfort
Wilkes
Mey
Futh
Jim Weil
Jeter
Eushor
Tei Jacobvs N
Theos
Poll omission complaint reaches General Evening Post
A complaint about the omission of Chamberlain from the poll was received with surprise. The poll's state at close of books on each day appeared in the preprint of the General Evening Post for Thursday and Saturday.
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Chamberlain
Water Level Warnings at London Bridge
High water alerts issued for London Bridge with flood times noted as 7m and 4am for morning and night on Thursday the 15th, following 10am and 10pm markers. Authorities urge caution as tide stands forecast to affect surrounding areas.
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London Bridge
Prices of CORN and grains at Corn-Exch market report
The market lists Monday prices for CORN and numerous grains and products. Wheat at 36 to 41 5. Pale Malt 27 to 0. Barley 16 to 26 3. Rye 24 to 26 3. Beans 27 4 to 28 6. Oats 14 to 29s 6d. Hog-Peale 26 to 28s. Finest Flour 34 8. Tick 21 to 24 8. Third fort 29s. Rape Seed per lait appears incomplete.
Prices of Stocks and Bank Shares at One O Clock
The afternoon stock prices show Bank Stock with entries 147jarga Andig ditto 164ah South Sea ditto New Ditto 84 gala cent. Bank Ann. Reduced 36.1a per cent. Contol 3 per cent 2726. 9 per cent 19 1, cent. Indig Ann. 3 per cent 1758. 87 4 per cent. Consol. Bask Ann. gota7 Igittia Bonda 60note pr. Navy. Bank Long Ann 25 dag.
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Consol
Bask _ Ann
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Stapefitius
Jacob Hemet
J. Majesty
Amelia
W. Bayley
Cockspur-street
Haymartyr
Price
F. Newbery
Buckfeller
St. Piot's
J. Grosvenor
Pechaner
Holborn
A. Rothwell
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