Cited causes of meat and provisions scarcity in Port London
The article discusses multiple factors behind high prices and scarce provisions. It cites horse breeding rising, reducing cattle, large-farm lets pushing up costs, resulting in fewer cattle and higher meat, butter, and milk prices. It also notes cattle scarcity from dealers, price inflations through engrossing and regrating, and widespread luxury driving demand. It closes urging salutary laws.
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London
Hiatine
East India Company Servants Letters and Nabob of Arcot Note
Printed in quarto with price 36, describes correspondence between East India Company servants in Bengal Fort St George and Bombay regarding treaties and grants from 1756 to 1766. Includes a Nabob of Arcot letter and Company responses, plus an appendix on the Company bargain with government. Also advertises Botts’s Considerations of India Affairs and related works with prices.
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London
J.almen
Burlingtonhouse
Piccadilly
P.elmily
Strand
Brotherton and Sewell
Cornhill
My. Rolts
India
Royal Marriage bill debate and Sandhurst case reports
Postscript shows committee debate on a clause limiting the Royal Marriage bill to the present king's life plus three years, with arguments for and against its temporary scope and concerns over future succession powers. The ministry rejects the clause 150 to 142, and the bill proceeds through readings with further amendments offered but not adopted. A separate Sandhurst bill discussion ends in rejection 28 to 14 amid forest rights disputes and peat and turf claims at Windsor. The narrative cites Mr Fox and Windsor forest officials, with a compromise to cut peat and turf to be confirmed by act.
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Mownpay
Sandhurst
Fox
Windsor Forest
Arived
Swallow
Trotter
Fidelity
Alcock
Bristol
Montagee
Walterer
Woolwich. Co
Venus
Belfours
Royal Oak
Sunderland
Leigh Roads
Nore
Bedford-house
Morgan
Neweste
Brabant
French Flanders
London
Mr. Coulson
Mr. Bethel
B. H. Dainty Davy
Match’em
Gee
Chefaut
Cimon
Bahram
Cimor
Mansions of Rome and Pekin Mission News
Mail from Holland reports March 7 as the Duke of Gloucester visits the Pope at the Quirinal after three days of mourning. The Pope presents two pictures and a complete set of Piranesi engravings, while Maron and Nevellon are commissioned for a bust and marble carving. China grants missionaries public preaching. the gospel is said to be spreading in Beijing churches.
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Holland
Rome
Duke of Gloucester
Quirinal
Antient
Piranesi
Sieur Maron
Nevellon
China
Pekin
Gepenbager
Finances Papers Seized From Counsellor's Letters
The College of the Finances and the Commission of Inquisition present papers found among the letters of the Counsellor of Justice Struensee. The documents pertain to money belonging solely to their department as laid before Commissioners Pretoria and Koll.
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Pretoria
Koll
Counsellor of Justice
Struensee
London dispatch reports East Indies tension and Bengal bill
Disagreeable advices from the East Indies say a French Tanjour alliance prompts English attacks, with demoralized natives likely to resist. In Parliament Mr Sullivan moves a bill to reform Bengal justice, abolish the Mayor's Court, create a Chief Justice with 8000 a year, and appoint judges and counsel by the King, with appeals to Bengal authorities and the Crown. Debates feature Lord Clive justifying conduct over a two and a half hour speech. Extras describe regiments clashing near Belfast and Dublin, naval movements, and local incidents including duels, dissensions, and deaths. News from Port Patrick, St. Helen's, and Spithead cover ships, wrecks, and ongoing movements of East India Company vessels.
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London
East Indies
Tanjour
Bengal
Dehli
Sullivan
House of Commons
Dornier
India
Lord Clive
Lord Mansfield
Wedderburne
Sir John Lindsay
Belfast
Iela
Port Patrick
62D Regiment of Foot
Hearts of Oak, &c
Highlanders
Cleveland Row
Dublin
Lord Redford
Lord North
Stainmoor
Bowes
J. Lowther
Newcatle Chron
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Tuting
Waade Chaade
Guinea
Granville Sharpe
Anthony Benezet
Philadelphia
Lendont
W. Owen
Temple-bar
E. and
C. Dily
Ives
Melei _ Reston
Postscript
Leff
East India Company
Cambridge
Portmouth
Spithead
Dean
John Lindsey
Mr. Leigh
Manchester
Southwark
St. ‘George's Fields
Lincoln
Linton
Noble
St. Olavey
Philip Furnace
Stoney-lane
County of
Wilts
St. Mary le Bone
Palmer
Newall
Morpeth-bridge
Lowes
William Lowes
Deal
Speaker
Earl of Sandwich
Carolina
Cande
Opogs
Apollo
Brett
Quebec
Soho
Cornelys
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