A Manufacturer Blasts Ministers Over War and Trade
A Norwich letter dated August 12 1776 condemns the ministry for wrecking domestic and foreign trade under a pretense of restoring harmony. It cites the Dillon capture and English war measures as ruinous, mocks ministers as heartless, and urges accountability for taxation and disruption of commerce.
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London Evening Post
Norwich
Heaven de San
Dillon
Yarmouth
Congress
Bath Master of Ceremonies debate hypocrisy and liberty
A correspondent attacks a proposed regulation for Bath ceremonies. He condemns anonymous plenipotentiaries seeking to bar voters and fix the Master of the Ceremonies income. He argues liberty of trade forbids exclusions, notes language tests are unnecessary, and urges open peer scrutiny before election. St James's coffee-house, Aug. 5.
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Bath
St. James’s Coffee-House
Marine Pay Office announces six months half pay notice
The Paymaster of Majestys Marine Forces announces that on Tuesday next the nineteenth instant six months half pay will be issued for reduced officers dating from January first to June thirtieth. Also notices from the Office of Ordnance outline ready reception of proposals for plank, oak and elm materials. East India Company director election notices list candidates Cheap and others seeking proprietor support for the August twentieth election. Public notices request all claims on the estate of Benjamin Hodgkin deceased.
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Admiralty
Tis ‘Majesty
Fune Laft
Office of Ordnance
Tower
Tis Majesty’s Ordnance
St. Margaret’s—street
Westminster
E ‘Aving
The
East India Company
Thomas Rumbold
A Treatise on Conquest and Military Preferment
Fragment from a historical column noting disputed military merit and favor tied to nobility and parliamentary influence. Mentions a treatise titled A Treatise of New Money of Conquest by a Christian Prince. Describes the work as elaborate and expensive, with references to scalping and annihilation of thirteen provinces.
Conference on the Success of Richard the Third
A brief exchange portrays a little great man and his premier discussing King Richard III. The scene hints at popular curiosity and crowding as the king’s reception is described as overflowing.
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Toni
King Dick
An Office for the IGnorant Or 4A Warehouse of Intelligence
An 18th or early text promises a space where physicians learn true practice of physic and divines true piety while lawyers advance law, ladies learn beauty, statesmen integrity, and parrots patriotism, with Counterfeits taught to counterfeiters corrected swiftly.
France Forces Congress Ships to Quit Ports in Sale Prizes
London Evening Post reports that France commands Congress ships of all sizes to quit ports after selling prizes. The move is linked to a display of Franco British relations, with Britain’s ministry showing elevated status and pride amid the developments.
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London Evening Post
Ox Frenen Farts
Brrrise Foury
France
Congress
News from Europe and Americas Stir Public Moves
Dispatches from Petersburgh Vienna and Paris report shifts in Crimea leadership and a new Khan, imperial military promotions, and plans to raise regiments. Lisbon rumors claim Portuguese forces defeated Spaniards near Rio de Janeiro. The Queen’s pregnancy continues, Pombal plans retirement, and American war prices and naval actions ripple through European ports including Toulon and l Orient.
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Petersburgh
Schagin Gueray
Crimea
Dew‘et Gueray
Vienna
Lisbon
Bohrn
Rio de Janeiro
Marquis de Pombal
Pombal
Marseilles
Isles
America
Europe
Toulon
Paris
l’Orient
Howe
Boston
Amsterdam
France
Bourdeauy
London News On Canadian Troops And Howe Delays
London reports put Canada’s fit for duty British troops at 8216 and describe plans in Parliament to pay 20 guineas for 100 if American independence is acknowledged in 1778. Next year’s army supplies are for repose of the army, not services, with shipments of feather beds and other utensils for General Howe’s troops. A powerful figure grows uneasy at Howe delays, reassured by his First Lord of the Admiralty.
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Canada
Great Britain
House of Commons
General Howe
Howes
Admiralty
Ington
America
Danbury
Atlantic
Boundbrook
St. Lawrence
Burgoyne
Mediterranean
County of Cumberland
Carlisle
Ofnaburg
Deal
Weatherwood
Thompson
Friendship
Catherine
Rose
Cooper
William
Charlotte
Lindsey
Ogilvie
Commerce
Hardy
Farmer
Austin
George
Kennedy
Blagrove
Campbell
Hodge
Daws
Brown
Henry
Richardson
Ann
Raffles
Mars
Beckford
Curling
Princess Royal
Stephens
Layton
Johnson
Brothers
Gael
Experiment
Braine
Northampton
Moyes
Jamaica
Downs
Milan
Halifax
Hunter
Wind S.W
George Barrington
Woolwich
Seacoal Lane
Snowhill
Dennison
Norwich
Society of Worcester College
Oxford
William Sheffield
Whitfield
Gower
Henry Longden
Duke of Manchester
Whitsbury
Wils
Sarum
Tomkins
John Napleton
Brazen Nose College
Would
Peterborough
Parr
Daniel Adams
Ware
Hertfordshire
Cambridge
Hand
Woodroffe
Beauchamp
King’s College
Edinburgh
Muffelburgh
Fisherrow
Esk
Polkemmet
Linlithgowshire
Isabella Walker
Thomas Baillie
Political turmoil and military losses cited in Aug period
The piece recounts August events with criticism of the Ministry and reports on Canadian frontier setbacks, Burgoyne's Indian force, a captured British vessel, and local courts. it notes civilian casualties along the St. Lawrence and a pardon for George Barrington while detailing ship arrivals and obituaries.
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Abe
Hyde-Park Turnpike
Clipton
Newport Pagnell
Bucks
Tattersall
TURF
John Boddington
East India Stock
India Company
Thomas Cheap
George Wombwell
William Devaynes
Richard Becher
Charles Boddam
James Moffat
Samuel Peach
Frederick Pigou
John Roberts
Thomas Bates
Henry Savage
Joseph Sparkes
Nathaniel Smith
George Tatem
East-India House
George Cuming
Richard Hall
John Manship
John Michie
Benjamin Hodgkin
Sunderland
County of
Durham
Hendry Hopper
John ‘Mathews
Whitby
Jemmett
Pudding-lane
London
London Evening Pot
Holland
India
South ‘Sea
D.cto
Consol
Navy
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