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Newspaper
Public Ledger
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Oct 09, 1760
Page
2
Letters from Frankfurt and Leipzig report the imperial coin issue standoff and ruined rumors. Hamburg condemns a polemic book and Venice tightens Jesuit debates as Prague and Vienna sketch subsidies and Russian intrigues. Jamaica, Newfoundland, and the English Channel echo with ship arrivals and privateer activity as Prussian and French actions shape a tense Atlantic scene.
Sunday arrived at Bristol the St nes Hyetty from Jamaicas who failed thence the third of August with six ships for London. A convoy was to fail the 16th of August under care of the Edinburgh man of war. General Pulteney set out for Bath for health. Commodore Keppel arrived from Portsmouth. Orders for troops encamped near Winchester to march into winter quarters are countermanded. Burgoyne's light horse march to London Bridge for grand secret expedition. A son was born at Argyle Buildings to the Right Hon Lady Jane Mathew. John Henry Stringer married at Stepney. John Wainwright died in Chanery. A severed head with double teeth washed ashore at Fleet Ditch.
The Principal Officers and Commissioners of His Majesty's Navy announce a sale on Tuesday the 14th at eleven o'clock in the morning. Items include decay'd rope, blocks, hammocks, lines, anchors, bellows, and other old stores. Viewing allowed in working hours until the sale. a deposit of 25 percent is required. buyers must pay and remove within forty days or the deposit is forfeited to the Crown.
EDW GRANT TUCKWELL writes from Monkwell-street in 1760 offering himself as a candidate for Register of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts Manufactures and Commerce. He cites early support from members and requests election, vowing diligence and fidelity if chosen.
Public notice warns that a bill drawn by Matthew Brickdale in Sept 1760 in favor of James Henderson and accepted by Fuller White of London remains unpaid. A second bill of the same value was paid by Fuller White to Henderson and Ebell, but the payer is ordered not to honor it. No one should be drawn onto by the first bill.
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