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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Dec 12, 1775
Page
4
A correspondent rebukes reconciliation talk with America, arguing Britain cannot endure peace while America remains vital to regional and colonial trade. The piece links France Spain Denmark and Scotland to American dependence, warns of expanded war, and denounces Scottish ingratitude while condemning Hanoverian policy and explorer-commerce ties.
A reader objects to the Lord Advocate of Scotland urging harsh colonial policy toward America. The writer questions motives for starving the Americans and condemns sanguinary aims. The letter mocks Scottish harshness and calls out detestable attachments to brutal sentiments.
Senior Severus conveys compliments to Lord M and pledges faithful support to his future political maneuvers with Scottish allies. The piece praises Dutchess of and others, urges immediate nomination of Sir Thomas Effezally to a Great Seal commission to negotiate with American rebels for submission to British authority.
General Post-Office announces the packet boat for Virginia North Carolina South Carolina Georgia and East Florida will be detained for a week. Letters to these provinces received by Saturday the 23d will be forwarded. Mail for the West Indies will go on the Grantham under Capt Jones for the same purpose. By command of the Postmaster General Anthony Todd secretary.
The London Evening Post notes officials and their agents sowing fairhoods to hide truth. It claims Provincials seized Bankers Hill and prepare to attack Boston. An express from Boston delivered damning reports, with the Captain refusing details, hinting of bad news. Parliament’s soldiers are said to be driven from Boston.
This day arrived the Mail from Holland with参Warsay November 22. Reports from Dantzik state that among all nations trading there the English have been the first to pay duties exacted by the Prussians on February weather and the borders of the Vistula. Paris December 1. Reports from Reeshford say an English transport carrying troops for Gibraltar was cut away near that coast. The King has erected Voltaire’s Ferney estate into a marquisate. Hague December 6. Malaga reports indicate preparations to fit out several ships of war, destination uncertain, possibly America or Barbary venture amid Spain Portugal tensions.
The piece recounts rumors of Quebec’s safety, Monmouth style British confidence, discontent in the American and Provincial camps, ship movements from Portsmouth and Gravesend, and stock shipments. It notes lottery prizes, a proposed bill to curb lottery insurance, political shifts in Westmorland, and various local notices including marriages, deaths, clergy appointments, and stock prices.
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