News from the British Campaign and Parliament in 1776
Dispatches recount Lord Howe missing him at Bolton Hallifax mid June. Howe lands, troops short by desertion sickness and Hessians reduced. Prohibitive peace terms from Commissioners. Provincials refuse exchange swords for pens amid British raids and winter quarters. Parliament opens with gracious speech promising action and tax hikes to fund luxuries. The era closes with a somber note, "Poor Old England."
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Howe
Bolton
Hallifax
Lord Howe
Parliament of
Great Britain
Commons
A&s
House of Commons
Turkey
England
Old
Proposals on peace with the American colonies from Gonzalez text
A royal letter urges the king to read Gonzalez’s 1745 Harleian travel account and adopt a prudent policy to restore unity and prosperity. It warns against religious divisions and factional excess, citing England’s interest in balance of power, law, and national credit.
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Gonzalez
Europe
England
William
Printer of se London Evening Pos
A correspondent named Fobn Telltruth is urged to avoid praising the Queen of France and to refrain from insinuating about German women aiding public prints while noting the author’s intent to mock or critique. The writer expresses disdain for the satire and calls out perceived pretension in the rhetoric.
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London
Telltruth
France
Choiseul as Minister Who Chose a Wife for Royal Master
A fragmentary note suggests Choiseul, the minister, selected a wife for the king. It claims the Queen’s faction angered the French nation and her supporters depended on rewards, likening them to a hidden snake mentioned in verses found at Ranelagh last Monday, anti vipER.
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Choiseu
Ranelagh
Congress
Fenchurch Street
New York
England
Lord Dartmouth
Jamaica
Port Royal
Monti Christi
America
North America
S6th
Foot
West Indies
William Montgomery
Preston
Light Dragoons
Halifax
Gray
55Th Regiment of Foot
Frazer
Rocks of
Scilly
Portmouth
Unicorn
Ford
Downs
Harrington
Chapman
Plymouth
Rotham
Brooks
Tenby
Phoenix
Footner
London
Jeremiah
Mary
Scarvel
Emworth
Woodman
Cork
Portsea
Hammond
Deal
Leendert
Matthy
Schelvis
Brunswick
Slade
Goodwin Sand
Colebrooke
Morris
Northumberland
Rees
Bengal
Tenducci
Drury Lane Theatre
Beaumaris
Four Crosses
Denbighshire
Ellin Ellis
Liverpool Advertiser
Gossip of a hostile press and Atlantic dispatches
A verbose critique derides the Scottish Gazette for bias while detailing naval losses, captured vessels, transport movements, and colonial campaigns. The letter covers engagements near Quebec and Boston, Hessian arrivals, promotions, shipwrecks, privateers, and notices from Portsmouth to Deal, with local trials, marriages, deaths, prices, and stock quotes interwoven.
Political Addresses and Clerical Reflections for Taxation
A late printed political piece by William Moore discusses addresses on blood and devastation, idol worship of kings, and American precedents from Scripture as a potential rebuttal to taxation. It notes publication by J. W. Shaw and distribution via Anderton's coffee house, Fleet Street, as part of a weekly political paper series.
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Elizabeth
Kingston
Petre de Right
House of Peers
Weiminger- Hall
Wesley
William Moore
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London Evening Post
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Goovness of
Venus
Minerva
Leonora
s-Head
Catenton-street
Pune
Wilkes
City of London
Chamberlain
Hopkins
Newgate
Parliamentary Register
Ireland
Mac Fingal
Dr. Smith
General Montgomery
Mr. Pinchbeck
W. Chambers
Lord Ch.m
Lord Stair
Amerca
J. Almon
Burlington House
Piccadilly
J. Bew
Paternotter-row
Potticript
Br Flels
Glasgow
Flowe
Boston
Gazette
Quebec
Canada
Braddock
William Johnson
Deifkaw S
Lake George
New England
Dickan
Providence
Brackshaw
Lord Mansfield
York Courant
Sur
Tam
John Reeves
Queenhithe
Duchess of Kingston
Joseph Betterworth
Portsmouth Common
Southampton
High Court of Chancery
Richard Drury
Fifty-Ninth Regiment of Foot
Vandeput
George Vandeput
St. George’s Church
Theophilus Bailey
Walthamstow
Essex
Juliana Simpson
Anglus
Argus
West India Merchant
C. D
Somerset House
Hells
Amber
Grimsby
Lincolnshire
Stirling
Scotland
Ditto
India
Consol
Navy
Woaifpererr
West India
F. Newbery
St. Pal's Church Yard
F. Blyth
Cornhill
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