Letter from Bristol merchant defending tobacco fraud claims
A Bristol merchant cites parliamentary letters to rebut a poisonous pamphlet alleging frauds in wine and tobacco trade. He details tobacco bonds, weights comparisons with Virginia, and methods like drying or moistening to alter weight. He urges officers to audit imports, and denounces attacks on merchants as unfounded and defamatory.
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Bristol
Scotland
Virginia
Private Letters from Paris Mention Political and Trade Rumors
London reports intimate private letters from Paris stating George Robinson member for Great Marlow and banker to the Charitable Corporation formed deals on two French mines with a third party name. Alderman Parker of Lynn Regis arrives with new wine gauging machines for the excise. Lloyd and Ogden seek parliamentary seats in Cardigan and Dorsetshire for Gorfe Castle.
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Poland
Adam Batt
Earl of Wilmington
St. John Clerkenwell
Middlesex
Direetes
London
Buckland
Hertford
Canterbury
John Baron
Norwich
Chester
Charles Burbury
Bart
Thomas Grosvenor
Deceas
Manley
Alderman Bennet
Naples
Cheshire
Edward Bellamy
Inner-Temple
Crown Office
Dutchy of Lancaster
Mecklam
Fhames-street
Enfield
John Boucher
Hambourg
St. Alban’s
Alderman. Carr
White Hart Inn
Westminster
Deptford
Woolwich
Chatham
Sheerness
Portsmouth
Plymouth
Broad-street
Tower-hill
John Thompson
Admiralty
Romney
Lord Muskerry
Thomas Ley
QC. Heracond
Charles Carford
Buckingham
Nore
Admiral Stewart
Gibraltar
Swallowstreet
Earl of Burlington
Saville-street
Sergeants-Inn
Fleet-street
York
Paris
George Robinson
Great-Marlow
Fraiche Coimpte
Alsace
Alderman Parker
Lynn Regis
Morfolk
Lloyd
Cardigan
Richard Ogden
Dorsetshire
Ely
Gorfe Castle