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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Feb 14, 1775
Page
4
Postscript from Warsaw notes the Austrians occupy more Podolia territory with entrenched lines. Their forces are in readiness to march at first notice. Severe frost since Sunday has killed several travelers on the roads and frostbitten noses and ears are reported.
A long letter details American pressure on British forces in Boston, merchant meetings at the King’s Arms, and a projected Westminster election shift due to Duchess of Northumberland’s illness. It reports Spanish seafaring actions, volunteer enlistments, and a Dublin style petition plan while foreseeing future parliamentary moves and royal authority debates.
Notices of a major cock fight between Nottinghamshire and Surrey at the Royal Cockpit Westminster start Monday next and last the week. Also sale notices from Peter Nevill of Frith Street quitting London for Calais offering champagne laces and house lease, plus continued business of Mr Francis Hunt’s nursery and seeds, and a wanted steady man for accounts. Stock prices at Teope Croce listed with various government and private securities and bonds.
The remainder of the House of Commons debates is postponed to our next issue. Hystaspes remarks to Lord North and a Virginian's take on the minister's speech will appear in our next, along with Regulus slated for Tuesday.
A fragment arguing that Parliament cannot be the supreme authority outside constitutional control. The constitution is the guiding star above ministerial error and corruption. In free states laws derive from truth and equity, not human sanction, and arbitrary taxation endangers Britain and America alike.
A reader argues against the idea that private and public property differ in justice, using a hypothetical estate granted to a son. The letter contends that if wicked servants loot rents from the estate despite the son’s faithful conduct, all siblings would view the father as unfair and oppressive, challenging colonial justifications.
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