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Debates on Nation's Wealth and Virtue From a Portmouth Letter
An extended critique laments the nation’s decline under current leadership, accusing heavy foreign debt and rising taxes of impoverishing the country while commerce weakens and national vigor sags. It warns that no true genius is rewarded and that public virtue and moral improvement have suffered amid luxury and corruption, calling for immediate redemption and renewed national spirit. Reports from Portsmouth and enclosing advisories detail naval movements, mutinies, ship captures, transports, and upcoming deployments as Britain braces for global conflicts.
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Portmouth
Admiral Boscawen
America
Namur
London
Gosport
Lisbon
Royal Anne
Spithead
Keppel
Torbay
Wheeler
Isis
South Seas
Plymouth
Payne
Ramillies
Albany
Jacobs
Kennington
Diggs
Broderick
Portsmouth
Fan
Edwards
Black Prince
Bostock
Trimmer
Gooch
Henrietta
Hill
Breganca
Hart
Namure
Parker
Cope
Falmouth
Naples
Gibraltar
Ceuta
Bilboa
St. Andero
Yarmouth
Vandangeur
Dunkirk
Pierre Butelle
Ranger
Hound
Peggy
Stade
Elbe
United Provinces
Algeries
Toulon
M. de la Clue
Malaga
Carthapena
Lerers
Jamaica
Bay of Ee
Brazils
East-Indies
France
Lally
India
Commodore Stevens
Admiral Pocock
Swartfager
Cape Finisterre
Charlotta
Lifton
Channel
Cadiz
Prince Edward
St. Malo’s
Martha
Crouch
St. Lucar
Hawke
Wilson
Nelly
Hervey
Aberdeen
Campiere
Calais
Mahon
Swan
Coward
Liverpool
Africa
East Indies
Watson
Pocock
Bay
Halifax
Nova Scotia
Admiral Holbourn
Francfort
Flanders
Schweidnitz
Ferdinand of Brunswick
Prussia
Marshal Richelieu
Breslau
Lower Saxony
Germany
Amherst
Regiment of Foot
Kent
Gravesend
Southampton
Woolwich Warren
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