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Petition on Trade Decay and South Sea Crisis Requests Relief
Petitioners urge Parliament to ease public debts and restore credit while praising the House for pursuing fraud and corruption. They seek measures to revive trade, reform finances, and secure relief for the South Sea Company proprietors, ending with a question on Brigadier Stamwix’s acceptance voiding his Carlisle election as Governor of Kingston upon Hull.
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South Sea Company
Stamwix
Carrlisle
Aingston Upon
Hull