A Letter to a Gentleman on Sugar Tax and Trade
A writer argues against taxing sugar colonies, citing French policy and high debt in Barbadoes and the Leeward Islands. He warns that new duties would devastate colonial commerce, drive planters to Denmark and Holland, and weaken Britain’s revenue and naval power. He urges restraint and patience to let sugar trade recover naturally.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
America
Utrecht
Barbadoes
Leeward Islands
Debi
West-India
Europe
Council of Commerce
England
Ounaburgh
Four Highwaymen Captured Near Devizes in Sudden Raid
Sarum report states four highwaymen were seized near Devizes. Two are jailed in our Prison, one severely wounded and unrecoverable. A fourth man turned informer and sits in Marlborough Bridewell. The group admits many robberies and vows to meet the gallows with a fiddle. Informers say eleven more are implicated in the Wayhill robbery gang.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Country News
Sarum
Devizes
Marlborough Bridewell
Wayhill
Controversial Pamphlet on The Orb Constitution
London notes discuss a pamphlet found among late Mr. n's papers arguing against the Orb Constitution. The column surveys European wars and naval policy, reports local deaths and appointments, election news, legal notices, ship losses, robberies, and a court martial. It records weathered rumors, prize drawings, and various societal obituaries and notices from Parliament to the coast.
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London
Orb
Petersbourg
N.S
Turin
Wentworth
Carey Street
Lincoln’s Inn Fields
Richard Canning
Francis Canning
Fox Court
Warwick
Ely
Ryegate
Surrey
Philip Yorke
Cambridge
Charles Yorke
Mansell Powell
Weobley
Herefordshire
Viscount Percival
Robert Barber
Stamford
Lord Burleigh
Rutland
Meacham
Little Wakering
Essex
Mall
St. Bartholomew’s Hospital
George Morrison
Leigh
Theald County
Horatio Townshend
the Excise
Lord Townshend
Jaft
Walthamstow
Vanham
Gabriel Vanham
Eton
James King
Winchester
Gravesend
Joseph Harman
Black Fryars
Dent
England
Forett
Hawton Wall
Isling On
Joseph Lewin
Cheapside
Bond Street
Norris
Oxford
Berkashire
Norris Bertie
Marshal Wade
John Taylor
John Lord Viscount
John Roberts
Bala
Merioneth
High Court of Chancery
Portsmouth
Capt. Fox
Admiral Chambers
Iron-Gate
Tower-Hill
Penny
Jenkins
Robert Morriss
Haberdather
Watlington
Henry Upon Thames
Bays
Whitehare
Jamaica
Bristol
Plymouth
Portillion
Franklyn
Newfoundland
Leghorn
Cadiz
Buck
Coverdale
Yarmouth
Truelove
Wales
Southampton
Beachy Head
Harwich
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