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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Aug 10, 1775
Page
4
Fragmentary speech excerpts accuse the Admiralty and Navy Boards of neglecting ship readiness. A speaker disputes Lord Lyttelton’s assurances about Spain and France threatening Britain, pledging to reveal a true state of the navy. The fragment hints at parliamentary tensions and public accountability.
A London Living Politic poem depicts Lord North fearing American resistance and proposing bold measures. He weighs bribery, foreign troops, and parliamentary pressure to crush the rebellion, arguing a large payment and swift reinforcement could secure his post if English sentiment stays aligned.
A letter condemns the ministry for provoking a costly war with the American colonies. It argues traders and merchants, once vocal against oppression, grow silent as war threatens England through ruined trade and heavier taxation.
A fragment discusses government plans to finance the American war through taxes on merchants. It claims merchants opposed oppressive measures yet now hope for debt relief as the ministry seeks payment, suggesting they are quietly backing the war to discharge their own obligations.
A long disjointed excerpt discusses British resistance to American independence, parliamentary actions, and public sentiment. It recounts royal proclamations and proposed compensation for Americans, details trials and indictments at Maidstone against shipwrights, and notes military orders, ship movements, and local civil cases in Cambridge and London. The piece also mentions executions and transportation sentences, plus marriages and local deaths.
Tickets are sold and divided into halves quarters eighths and sixteenths shares by Hazard and Co stock broker at their State Lottery Office No 93 Royal Exchange. All shares sold at this office will be flap with the Crown and round it. Hazard's Lottery Office. Only two blanks to a prize.
Prices listed include Bank Stock, Old Annuities, New Annuities, 7 Percent Bank Annuities reduced, Consol, India Annuities, India Bonds, Navy and Victualling Bonds, and Long Annuities. Ranges show varied quotations and minor fractions, with items like 28 and 17625 appearing amid the ledger. Notes indicate multiple classes and % rates, reflecting early market pricing and securities names.
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