General Evening Post in London, Middlesex

The American Declaration in the Eyes of an Englishman

A controversial English letter questions the Declaration of Independence arguing self evident rights are misapplied and criticizes the idea of inherent equality and unalienable rights. The piece mocks the phrase life liberty and happiness and mocks the rebels while defending monarchy. An English editor adds a minute account of a French marshal’s secret papers seized at his home and mentions a secretary’s betrayal and Bastille confinement.