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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Dec 16, 1762
Page
4
A correspondent mocks an alleged self serving critic and urges pious study before social company. The letter then cites a sea officer’s career notes from 1759 to 1762, detailing promotions of North British officers and the author QUINQUAGENARIUS seeking command in the next war, if health and fortune hold.
From Ulm to Leipsick and Dunkelspiel frontline notes spill through Dec 3 to Dec 27 reports. Prussians seize brass cannon at Nuremberg, press for cloth, cattle, and milled ducats while enforcing conscription and restricting British troop passage. Local accidents and crime add brief domestic detail as ships enter and depart.
From Hanover dated the 7th, Princess of Heilz Cassel will move from Zell to Hannau where three Hanoverian battalions in English pay will garrison. London bridge arch renovations feared to weaken foundations. Obituary notes: Robert Titchborne, 88, Croydon woollen draper, died. Fire tragedy: Mrs Walsh burnt to death at the Bull and Burner inn near Smithfield after candle ignited her head cloths.
A literary extract from a pamphlet titled An Address to the Cocoa-Tree. The writer rebuts a country gentlemen directive to support ministers and the crown, arguing the opposition is partly personal to a minister, and urges readers to consider historical context rather than suppress dissent.
The writer counters that current opposition stems from the entire kingdom and not just three named figures. He argues ministers must answer to the nation, not merely the king, and condemns Tory maxims while defending Whig principles of popular liberty and constitutional balance amidst political maneuvering.
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