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Newspaper
Bristol Journal
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Apr 20, 1782
Page
4
The Lord Mayor, Aldermen, Sheriffs, and Common Council of the City of London waited upon the King with an Address read by the Recorder after introduction by the Duke of Manchester. The event, noted in the London Gazette on St. James's Day, April 12.
The Lord Mayor Aldermen and Commons of London present thanks for royal council changes and loyalty. The King replies with satisfaction, pledges crown dignity and unity, and bestows knighthood on the Right Hon. William Plomer, Lord Mayor.
In the Commons on Friday April 12 the Contractors bill is read in original form as amendments were not adopted. Debate centers on barring contractors from seats, with Lord Nugent Burke and others arguing about voice of the people and government policy. Amendments to preclude annual contractors and those with landed property are discussed amid objections and parliamentary debate.
Amid debate on economy measures and royal reform, the Throne’s message urges a broad plan to cut public expenditure. Burke lauds the King and people, while Fox notes a forthcoming bill declaring reforms in the Civil Life. Resolutions on governance in India are read, emphasizing defense, obedience, and punishment for abuses.
The Lord Advocate urged that justice and authority rest with Parliament and its standing committees to hear complaints from servants at home or abroad. He claimed lenity to delinquents harms the public and pressed the House to report progress and reconvene, noting the vast distance and shared rights of 25 million people calling for redress.
A bold prospectus for Edward Barnard's extensive history of England, priced sixpence per part, to run seventy numbers. It boasts authentic sources, rich engravings, portraits, maps, coins, and royal portraits, aiming to cover invasions, wars, conquests, governance, and two thousand years of British affairs.
An advertisement promotes a costly new history of England to 1783, with engravings and prints by multiple artists. It promises uniform, complete publication, noting a first number and a subscriber list, and urges readers to request Barnard's New Comprehensive and Complete History of England from Alex. Hogg in Paternoster Row.
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