Advices from Boston Describe Factional Shifts and Loyalty
Reports from Boston note General Gage arriving May 12 easing tensions while faction leaders face disqualification and possible removal to England. Public sentiment favors obedience to Parliament, with rioting unlikely unless pressured by Governor’s unknown instructions. Observers doubt a coordinated anti-British trade pledge will succeed, predicting further political feuding mainly through publications and speeches.
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Eneral Gage
Boston
London
House of Peers
England
America
Doctor F
Massachusetts
Bostonians
House of Representatives
Downfall of our manufac tos and poor rates debate
The piece argues that taxing the poor or altering parish relief would not fix high wages or productivity. It cites Davenant predicting English poor rates as a future bane to manufacturing and claims about one million two hundred thousand people receiving alms, many of whom would work if not for charity.
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France
Mareschal Vauban
England
Davenant
Inoculation Debate And Smallpox Experience
A letter to the General Evening Post argues for inoculation amid a Norfolk case. It recalls Penrice of Weybread contracting smallpox in 1769 and a Suffolk inoculation of a five year old, yielding twenty variolous pustules, cited as proof that Dubitator’s daughter is not yet safe. The writer urges acceptance of inoculation for the child’s safety.
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Warwickshire
Harleston
Norfolk
Penrice
Gratis
Wilby
Suffolk
News from Europe on Thorn siege and court favors
Mails from Holland and Flanders report Thorn surrounded by Prussian troops forbidding entry or exit without passport. Paris notes court favors to Dukes Choiseul and Praslin, Richelieu heads to Bordeaux, and Marseilles faces twenty three bankruptcies valued above twelve million. A baker in Pa fy charged for high festival bread prices fined 500 livres.
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Marseilles
Paffy
Corpus Christi
Montague and Quebec Act in London Session
In London yesterday and today the Upper Assembly passed the sinking fund bill the recoinage bill and the weights regulation bill for gold and silver coin with royal assent pending. The House of Commons received Lords messages and Aldermen and Common-Council prepared to present a petition to the King on the government of Quebec. News from abroad reports Paris liberating writers against the late Administration and naval movements in the Atlantic and Mediterranean amid reports of battles and ship losses. A London fire, robberies, drownings, and a shocking case of infant murder near Shipley are detailed among local mishaps.
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Harry Verelli
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Tower of London
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Goldsmiths Company
Ruffel Street
Bloomsbury
Boston
New-York
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Maryland
Virginia
Great Britain
West Indies
Massachusetts Bay
Paris
Versailles
High Water Notes at London Bridge Timings
Water levels at London Bridge list high tides and times with specific increments after midnight and into the afternoon. The note records successive high water marks and the hour references for the 14 m after 12, 55 m after 2, and subsequent angles through the day.
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Corn Market Prices At The Corn Exchange
Prices of corn and related grain at the Corn Exchange in London show oats at 16 to 273, barley at 24 to 308, rye 26 to 293, wheat 46 to 535, finest flour 4 25 per sack, malt 32 to 98s per quarter, Br malt 32 to 363 per quarter, peas 72 to 145, hog peas 26 to 28s, beans 29 to 418, licks 24 to 20s, tare 24 to 30s. Values quoted in shillings and pence per unit, with multiple fort scales indicated.
Prices of Stocks and Bank Annuities in Early Market
Prices listed include Bank Stock 147 2 India ditto 4522at, South Sea ditto, Old Ann ditto, New 862a3a$, per cent Bank Ann Reduced 874at, Consol ditto 1726, afternoon 1 o'clock, R per cent 1751, 3 per cent India Ann 797a8a, 4 per cent 1758, Consol Bank Ann, India Bonds 444445 pr Navy, Bills, Lottery Tickets 141. 3s.
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Fternoon
Bank Ann
Gizaz India
Pr. Navy
Bank Long Ann
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