Wheat Bounty Proposals Aim to Keep Grain Prices Fair
A sequence of letters argues for maintaining a five shilling quarterly bounty on exported wheat with tiered limits by market price. Proposals urge open ports with duties and refunds, aiming to keep bread affordable, boost home wheat growth, and deter fraudulent exports. Authors urge public price notices and parliamentary wisdom to balance agriculture, commerce, and colonist activity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ireland
America
Europe
Liverpool
Description of a Country Corporation Letter to Freeholders
A fragment notes two works titled The Description of a Country Corporation and A Letter fyn'd A Well-wither for the Dead to rest undisturbed, indicating they will be inserted at the first opportunity. The items appear as read phrases awaiting publication or inclusion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London Evening Post
Meres
Grenadier Corps
Placket
Islington
Great Grimsby
Lincolnshire
Joseph Mellish
York
Liverpool
Ireland
John Tempetst
Durham
Mexbrough
Robinson
Shepherd
Tennant
Richmond
Boroughbridge
Deal
Baltimore Packet
Hewitt
Maryland
Integrity
Rippon
Ditto
Downs
Appenrade
Howard
Fanny
Fairclough
London Notebook: Absentees list and coastal smuggling reports
A London period finds a learned Scotsman planning to publish a list of Scots absent from Scotland, mirroring Dublin’s recent Irish absentee list. The page also covers political maneuvering rumors, arrivals of notable figures, commentary on governance by philosophers, prices, smugglers’ seizures, local fires, accidents, and a sample of theater listings and financial quotes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Scotland
Dublin
Ireland
Paris
Count du Chatelet
Great Britain
Earl of Chatham
France
Diseases and Casualties This Week Report
Diseases and casualties listed bluntly with figures for smallpox measles fever and other ailments. Casualties include deaths by violence and accident with totals for males and females. Overall totals show increases in burials and christenings across the week.
This Day was publish in Two Volumes Contemplation of Naturiy
This Day was published in two volumes priced at 6s in calf and 5s in blue paper. It is a translation from the French of C Bonnet, noted for various European academies, printed for Longman in Paternoster Row and Becket in the Strand.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. Bonnet
Germany
Lussia
England
Sweden
Lyosis
Electoral Academy
Bavaria
Institution of Bolognia
Royal Academy of Sciences
Royal Societies
Montpellier
Gottingen
T. Longman
T. Becket
P. A. de Hondt
Strand
Ana Pion
East India Company
Iris
G. Kearfly
Ludgate Street
William Dodd
R. Davis
Piccadilly
J. Newbery
St. Paul’s
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Mines
Philo
Erry At
Cuch
Eing
Duke of Beaufort
Lord King
Sussex
Thomas Knight
New Romney
Lower Grosvenor-street
Godmersham
Kent
Charles Sloane Cadogan
Lord Cadogan
Cambridge
Str. James's Place
Caversham
Reading
John Pitt
Wareham
Arlington Street
Encome
Corf Cirtle
Dorsetshire
Pitt
Queen’s Arms
Newgate-street
Bear Key
Oxfordshire
Berkshire
Queenhithe
Torbay
Ile of Alderney
Cambletoun
Aberdeen
Mr. Day
Ratcl
Grey’s
Oxford Road
Drury-Lane
Archer
Garrick
Dorinda
Reddish
Cherry
London Bridge
India
South Sea
Ann
Bk. Ann
Xedn
Navy & Vict
Long Ann
Viern
Sere Vu
R Sack
E. and
C. Dilly
Poultry
Stirling
Toge
Wales
Miles
Ntice
Royal Academy of Paris
Thomas Nugens
Itf
Tohn Gignoux
Long-Acre
Burchell
Royal Exchange
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