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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Feb 07, 1775
Page
1
A fragmentary letter professes friendship and loyalty, signing as Sir P. D. Knight of the Beggars Benizon, concluding with a formal farewell and well wishes.
Nathaniel Curzon writes to Derby county gentlemen and clergy expressing gratitude for being chosen as a representative in Parliament. He pledges steady perseverance and public service dedication to the county, dated Kedleston February 4, 1775.
This day was published in eight volumes at twenty one shillings in boards with prints by Mefi Taylor and Marin. Oliver Goldsmith’s History of the Earth and Animated Nature contains quadrupeds birds fishes and insects and relies on Buffon Lanzxus Briffon Ray and others. Printed for J. Nourse Strand, bookseller to his Majesty.
The London Evening Post laments a cruel petition against Birmingham's inhabitants, branding it with disgrace and urging public response. The piece notes the town's decaying gun trade and the distress gripping nearby manors amid this extraordinary controversy.
At a meeting of Birmingham merchants and manufacturers a petition to Parliament was agreed to press for healing remedies and a speedy permanent reconciliation. The piece criticizes passive obedience, condemns a minority petition, and notes a flagrant petition signature list. Veritas notes counter efforts by government emissaries to sway opinion, including a controversial Stamp Act critic visiting multiple towns.
Letters from Halifax merchants urge London to refrain from petitioning the Commons in support of North American brethren. A Birmingham and Leeds loyalist petition circulates in Halifax, with Thirty Thousand Industrious Poor resolved to petition the King if General Gage orders a massacre, to transport to Boston for bread before death. Halifax parish poor rate exceeded seven thousand pounds that year.
The letter to Mr. B- Chelsea Water-works ridicules a musical composition titled the Maid of the Oaks. The writer mocks the performers and instruments and teases altering the author name, suggesting Buckhoe for a nominal loan of fame.
The London Gazette reports new appointments by the King including William Blair John Kenrick James Bindley William Baillie and William Waller as Commissioners for stamp vellum parchment and paper duties and John Brettell as Secretary. Also Paul Henry Curry named Navy principal officer for Plymouth Yard. Notices describe naval preparations for Boston and various shipwrecks and storms near Madeira and the Havannah. Inland events include grants of land tax measures and the Speakers chair in the Commons, plus multiple crime and highway robbery reports and local marriages and deaths.
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