Penny Dreadfuls, 1736 · page 14 of 16
Thoughts on Trade — page 14: what you’re looking at
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This is a page of running prose from what appears to be an 18th-century (not Victorian) political or commercial pamphlet. The text discusses arguments about London Bridge repairs and tolls, asserting that building a new bridge would not harm the City of London's trade or navigation. The second section shifts to an elegiac piece titled "On the Demife of the Great Prince Eugene," mourning Eugene as the last surviving captain among three great generals—John Duke of Marlborough, James Duke of Berwick, and Prince Eugene himself—representing Protestant and Catholic faiths respectively.
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. Sag i. “ ‘ .. ~, Rents, Tolls. ad Incomes do but juft keep in Repairs London Bridge. - Such as'may think a New Bridge will hurt the Inhabitants of the City and Liberties of Landon, aré miftaken ; for as long as the d Bridge remains, the Navigation will be the fariie. . ‘The Cuftom-Houfe, Merchants Store- Houfes and Ware-Houfes, Trading Com- patties Houfes and Halls ; the Excife, Poft, and Infurancess, and numerous more Off- ces; the Royal Exchange; Corn, Coals and Live Cattle Markets ; Doctor's Com- mons, the Temple, and all the Inns of Court, will continue where they now are : Therefore the more the out Parts of Lon- don, Weftminfier and Southwark are increa- fed, the greater muft be the Refort to the City of Londom, and the greater the Trade, as long as we fupport foreign Commerce, to have the Advantage in Trading. On the Demife of the Great Prince Eugene. Evcene no more! was the laft furviving Captain of Three as Great Generals as ever any Age produc’d; Joun Duke of Mart- BRovcH, James Duke of Berwick, Ang- Uijomen, PrinceEucene, an Itatan; the firtt a Protefiant, and the two laft Roman Ca- tholioks. On COMICHDOOKSTEO