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The Virginia Gazette
Richmond, Williamsburg, Richmond County, Virginia
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In Berlin, foreigners arrive to join the new Embden Company; a Brussels merchant offers 700,000 Florins loan on conditions. A job seeker contacts Voltaire for a role on the company's China ship, receiving a cautionary fable in response.
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There continues from Time to Time to arrive here Foreigners, in order to take Part in the new Establishment of the Company of Embden. Amongst others a Merchant of Brussels has offer'd to lend the Company 700,000 Florins upon certain Conditions.
A Person from Brussels wrote to Voltaire to obtain for him an Employment on Board the first Ship which the Company should send to China. The Poet answer'd him by a Sort of Fable, which was:
"A Traveller arrived at a certain City, where he understood that a great Lord intended to build a sumptuous Palace, the Plan of which was scarcely form'd, and applied to be Porter to the Palace. You Shall, said the Lord, be Porter, provided you live to see it finish'd."
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Embden
Event Date
Jan. 1.
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brussels merchant offered 700,000 florins loan upon certain conditions; voltaire's fable implies uncertainty in company's establishment.
Event Details
Foreigners arrive in Berlin to participate in the new Company of Embden. A Brussels merchant offers to lend 700,000 Florins on conditions. A Brussels person seeks employment via Voltaire on the company's first China-bound ship; Voltaire replies with a fable about waiting for a palace to be built before becoming its porter.