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Newspaper
General Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Dec 13, 1774
Page
4
A 1774 letter from a Freeholder to a London friend lauds the Patrists’ rise and mocks rival factions. It describes a victory procession through P- with symbolic figures like the Hog and Barber, praising the new order and the Sun’s transit as omen. The account ends with a moonlit festivity and a astrologer note.
Letters from Flanders and Genoa dated November 16 indicate the court has ordered regiments to move toward Cadiz and other maritime posts, with plans to send forces to Ceuta. Naples reports Vesuvius in great agitation on November 18, threatening a quick eruption and lava flow toward Ottajano.
This day the House of Peers met to continue business while the Speaker of the Commons recently took the chair. A committee reported a resolution to impose a duty on all goods made in Great Britain from June 24, 1775 to June 24, 1776 to fund the year 1775 service. A bill permitting Indian corn imports with a duty was read. A motion sought leave to introduce a bill to prevent export of tools used in woollen manufacture. The house adjourned after three. The Middlesex rights case will be brought forward in the Commons by the Lord Mayor and Mr Glynn, aided by Sir George S-le.
A Boston and Salem trade faction reports large orders from two leading houses in that trade, while colonial tensions grow as Georgia and Florida dissent from Congress. An assault in London ends with a suspect jailed, and debates surface on the tea destruction decree. News from New York, Onondaga, and Delaware Indians point to renewed alliances and frontier settlements, with Dunmore's peace with the Delaware and fur trade impacts noted.
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