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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Aug 09, 1740
Page
1
Reports of English squadron under Sir John Norris approaching seas and neutral Portugal. Madrid notes siege preparations before Gibraltar and French Prussian diplomacy with Berlin and Paris. Holland and Swedish subsidies, and plans for future alliances.
In Edinburgh this August yesterday the Merchant Company decided to address his Grace the Duke of Argyle and return thanks of the nation for his eminent services. A committee will wait upon him. Also reported: Bailie Robert Robertson, Glasgow merchant, died abroad while returning home. Sir William Cunningham of Kepperton died aged, noted for charity and piety.
Dartmouth reports Sir John Norris has failed but a strong southwest wind carried him safely into Torbay with his ships in sight. About 160 outward-bound merchant ships are noted in the fleet nearby. Lancaster reports Captain Lucas aboard the Lark arrived from St Christopher's on the fifth. News from Tortola notes Captain Wentworth with 47 men aboard a sloop and a Spanish sloop carrying 8000 pieces of eight and additional merchandise.
A Cornwall delegation assembled at Bodmin on July 31 1740 expresses thanks to their MPs for parliamentary conduct yet fears constitutional decline. They urge passage of bills limiting placemen and preventing electoral influence under a Visible Court Dependency, asserting the need for free elections and parliamentary independence.
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