Request to Reinstate Former Sentence at King's Tribunal
The speaker pleads to avoid misreading mercy offered at the king's tribunal. He asks to be ordered back to his former sentence and promises to reveal weighty affairs before leaving the bar.
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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Aug 30, 1766
Page
3
The speaker pleads to avoid misreading mercy offered at the king's tribunal. He asks to be ordered back to his former sentence and promises to reveal weighty affairs before leaving the bar.
Boston dated July 21 reports orders to ship stamped paper and parchment from Cattle William on the Fortune sloop of war this week. July 25 notes Admiral Durell expected at Halifax to relieve Admiral Colvill with Hon. Michael Franklin aboard as Lieutenant Governor and Commander in Chief of Nova Scotia. July 14 obituary for Rev. Jonathan May hav D D praising his life and work, recounting his early Cambridge studies and 1747 pastoral call to the West Church in Boston.
The Dublin Parliament is prorogued to April next while fortresses demand 94000 pounds sterling for repairs. Reports from Worcester Bristol and Norwich detail local elections robberies pardons executions and port arrivals with various official notices and civil happenings across England.
A reader laments rulers who favor self interest over the nation. The writer attacks officials for greed and for abandoning common welfare, suggesting profiteers and stock-robbers would act similarly if in power. The piece blames avarice for political decay and calls for reform.
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