Madder premiums offered by Society for Arts 1773
The Society for the Encouragement of Arts proposes Madder planting and husbandry premiums. Awards include three pounds per acre planted with Madder in 1773, with caps on total acres, sample requirements, and time limits. top root producers and best cultivation reports to earn additional prizes. Also notes future Madder premiums for 1772 and 1773 and conditions for certificates and field naming.
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England
Wales
N. B
Samuel More
Embank Thames Bill Opposed By London Citizens Petition
The text records a London petition opposing a river Thames embankment bill. It argues the river’s soil is ancient city property, urges preservation of civil rights, warns against royal assent without consent, and recalls post-revolution protections. The Sheriff delivers the petition to the King and the King to the Lord in waiting.
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Thames
Durham-yard
Salisbury Street
Cecil-{treet
Beaufort-buildings
County of
Middlesex
London
Fire Devastates Bergen and Baltic Trade Slowdown
From the London Gazette May 4 with reports from Bergen on the second instant of a major fire shredding the town’s principal quarter. Letters from Aranjuez and Copenhagen note events, while Baltic navigation remains closed and grain shortages grow severe as imports stay blocked.
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London
Madrid
Don Xavier
Aranjuez
Copenhagen
Bergen
Norway
Baltick
Royal arrivals and Baltic dispatches from Naples to Lemnos
Berlin reports the King of Sweden arriving at court and letters from Otranto dated March 28 detail Russian forces in Lemnos where Turks were slain for breaking Christian protections. The Corfu ship also notes Rasputins? no, Ruffians and Metiline island fortifications.
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Holland
Berlin
Sweden
Naples
Otranto
Corfu
Isle of
Lemnos
Iland
Metiline
London Society Meeting Ends With No Business Done
In London sixteen gentlemen met at the Constitutional Society with no business completed. The Cardinal Priest moved for Whist at six, and play continued at two tables until one in the morning. Sir Robert Bernard was sworn in Friday as Recorder of Bedford, succeeding the late Duke of Bedford. A postscript to a letter to Robert Morris questions when he will retract the charge against Judge Adom over lottery tickets, a tale Horne allegedly told.
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Townsend
Aston
Robert Morris
Lord Barrington
Wilkes
Thames
Heydon Yard
City of
London
Alderman Oliver
Tower
Castle-Baynard
Cornhill
Cole
An-Street
L—d
Islington
Vokes
Fordyce
Henrietta Cummyng
Captain Hughes
Monmouthshire
Jarvis
Brecon
John Meredith
Joseph Allenson
Bruton-street
Elizabeth Wooton
Great Ruffell-street
Hanover
de Hake
Gresham Committee
Gloucester
Elliot
Mr. Elliott
Constitutional Society
Robert Bernard
Bedford Recorder
Duke of Bedford
Judge Adom
Earthquake alarm unsettles eastern English towns
Inhabitants of Watlington Balden Milton Thame and nearby eastern districts were startled by a near minute long shock. Shipping arrivals include Union and Africain from St Domingo, Septimanie from Catalonia, Adventure West from Menton, Georgia Planter Inglis from Georgia, Lisbon Orthordahl from Sicily and Dispatch Agar from Cagliari. Nice Galley Cockburn from Nice and Friends Goodwill Walker from Limerick also listed at Hamburgh.
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Country News
Oxford
Watlington
Balden
Milton
Thame
Nantz
Union
Africain
St. Domingo
Septimanie
Guift
Catalonia
Hamburgh
Adventure
West
Menton
Portsmouth
Georgia Planter
Inglis
Georgia
Lisbon
Orthordahl
Sicily
Dispatch
Agar
Cagliari
Stangare Creek
Nice Galley
Cockburn
Nice
Potatoes Recommended By Belfield Agriculturist
A Lancashire correspondent from Belfield near Rochdale offers opinions on the best potato varieties for summer and winter use. He cites early red and white dwarfs and the flat white kidney for summer, and the white Buffet red Buffet golden Tay and riff dan for winter, with deference to public instruction.
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AVING
Petition by London City Locum Tenens to Crown Authority
The Locum Tenens of the Lord Mayor Aldermen and Commons of the city of London present a petition to the king at Guildhall via Sheriffs Baker and Martin. They request royal support to uphold civil rights as a bill has recently passed through both Houses of Parliament.
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Court of Common-Council
Guildhall
St. James's
Baker
Martin
City of London
Addresses of London Borough Representatives and Oliver Address
Two sheets printed for public sale in London and Westminster present the Borough of HONITON address to their representatives and the Lord Mayor s answer. Also Alderman Oliver s London livery address after his election to Parliament and his letter to fund a city table during Tower imprisonment. Portraits of the Lord Mayor and Oliver decorate the sheets, engraved by Mr Fine.
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London
Westminster
Honi
Alderman Oliver
Tower
N. B
Elega Tly
Fine
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Paris
Journal Economique
Wharton
Tam
Richard Townley
Manchester
NEWS
London Evening Post
Belfield
Rochdale
Lancashire
Bank
India
Bank Ava
Ditto India
Pr. Navy and
Viet
Anna
London Bridge
oGlock
Rmoon
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