A London Chronicle on money, morals, and a public check
A 1761 London column discusses stock speculative fever in Change Alley and Scrip, moral debates on love and society, a Rome to Cornhill discourse, and warnings from an old investor. It notes a sugar Theft case near Cherry Garden, a Twenty Guineas reward, and advertisements for Stomach Lozenges under Royal Patent with retail details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Wednesd&y
Qga
Britain
Jonathan
Mont
Buffy
France
Cornhill
Rome
Europe
China
Ens
Catullas
Ovid
Circaitia
Persia
Philippine Islands
Loango
Cherry Garden Stairs
Rotherhithe
Watestydn
Persom
Christopher Robinson
T Law
Tanholders Hall
Dowgate- Hill
Bath and
Tunbridge
Mr. Bayley
Suffolk Street
Haymarket
PORT NEWS WIND N E SHIP ARRIVALS AT DOWNDS
Port News from May 11 reports a northeast wind holding, with ships including the Lyon Vigors bound for Plymouth the Providence Lamb for Dublin and the Norfolk Mconicke for East India. At Gravesend on May 11 the Ann Anderson from Rotterdam the Betsey from St Kitts the Goodwill and the Ury Grist from Amsterdam and the Four Friends from Guernsey are noted.
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Port News
Deal
Wind N. E
Downs
Lyon
Vigors
Plymouth
Providence
Lamb
Dublin
Norfolk
M‘conicke
East India
Pat
Ann
Anderson
Rotterdam
Betsey
Batten
St. Kitts
Goodwill
Clinkert
Ury Grist
Williams
Amsterdam
Hesketh Baronetcy Granted In May Gazette
LON M. Whitehall May 12 reports the king’s grant of a baronetcy to Thomas Hesketh of Rufford Lancaster, with male issue to his brother Robert if none. includes a Brussels Gazette Paris article note dated May 1 and mentions a Courier arrival from the coast of Bri- tights.
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Lon
Whitehall
Thomas Hesketh
Rufford
County of Lancaster
Kingdom of Great Britain
Robert Hesketh
Brussels
Belleisle
Paris
Bri
Belleisle siege update and English actions reported
Letters detail the English second attempt on Belleisle failing to break French resistance while French forts and regiments suffer. Descriptions note heavy fatigue, losses for Bigorre, and a stubborn defense by M. de St Croix as English forces retreat to their ships. Further dispatches report moves toward peace, with statements on Hanover frontiers, Prussian levies, and ongoing military mobilizations across Europe.
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Tany
Belleisle
Bigorre
Quiberon
L’omaria Point
Port Andras
M. de St. Croix
Grands Sables
Great Sands
D’aicguillon
Liege
Wezel
Germany
Duke de Choiseuil
Prince Gatlitzin
London
Prince Gallitzin
Plains
Hanover
Prince Ferdinand
Larcinery
Holstein
Conway
England
Bremen
Army of the Empire
Brandenburgh
Werner
Tuttleben
Pomerania
Mecklenburgh
Schwerin
Rostock
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