Repeal Debates Speech on Civil Liberties and Papal Laws
The text presents a fragmentary 18th century discourse arguing against royal power to seize soldiers and criticizing repeal of penal laws affecting Roman Catholics. It contends MPs misuse vague terms like idle and disorderly to justify coercion, warns that such measures threaten freedom, and defends Protestant supremacy while condemning Papal influence. The passage also notes Observator and a speaker’s call to preserve liberties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Totelge
Majchy
Watheyhall
House of Commons
Brosellasis
Smithfeld
Fragmentary London Evening Pot Rods Across Thames
A garbled OCR fragment describes London Dover base and a river crossing with terms like Kent and Dover. It mentions sensational language and confusion, claiming readers see horrors and torpor, with scattered references to places and events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Surry
Londog
Toreigoeks
London
Dover
Kent
Bankruptcy case reveals injustice to creditors
Fragmentary legal report shows a trader branded bankrupt, with creditors denied full remedy as formal notices falter. Court insists on complete procedure, despite delays, highlighting harm to creditors and unresolved accountability for the offender.
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Amikrupt
Critics Alarm Over Turnpike Road Waste and Debts
The London Evening Post argues trustees drain funds by letting surveyors loot road materials after rain. Surveyors cost forty pounds a year yet spend two hundred, depleting the highways. Trustees should curb material removing and only add gravel to maintain road shape and wear.
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Isa Deddand
Discourse on Naval War and Political Turmoil in 1778
The piece laments ministers and claims Lord Chatham's friends blocked an accounting of negotiations before his death. It denounces Keppel’s treatment, warns of trade collapse, and criticizes Parliament’s majority. Reports Brest and English fleet movements, pricing and pensions, and local disturbances amid a tense national crisis. The article notes the Spanish fleet, militia issues, and Admiral Keppel’s contested dispatch, with social commentary on leadership and loyalty.
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Chathain
Admiral Keppel
America
Carolina
Virginia
George Savile
Lord Lyttelton
Lord Stormont
Lord Suffolk
Jemmy
Portsmouth
St. Helen’s
Fox
Proserpine
Milford
L’ Amiable
Vincent
Martinico
Havre de Grace
le St
Havre
Brest
Ilzyr
Chace
Lord Sandwich
Thomas Ves
S. Helen’s
Dragoons
Coombe Downs
West Stowe
Salisbury
Middlesex
Coxheath
England
Adiral Keppel
Albion
Smith
Clyde
Philadelphia
Dublin
Bute
Corke
Box Mor
Lord Longford
Frances of
Guildhall
Chamberlain
Benjamin Hopkins
Alderman Wilkes
Roberts
Fetter-lane
New York
Rarmouth
Duke of York
Oathwood
John Forrester
Jock of the Forest
Carlisle
Bill
Raves
Bodmin
Cornwall
M’carmick
Penhellick
Sol
Southcot
Harapha
Christopher Treife
St. Germans
Saxton
Baron de Wenzel
Sackville-street
St. James’s
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Lon Edge
Barisnet Iy
Ina Shovet
London Evening Post
Mate M
R. Peacock
Porohill
Norfolk
M. F
Bios
Guyne
Vner
Hartley
Burgroyne
Intel Almonte
Burington
Piccadilly
Seadiliys
HAM
Postscript
Flanders
Paris
Brek “Gdvise
Guernsey
Cruize
Sither
L.own-Don
le Glorieux
Consol
sBthe Ag
Commander i
Est
de Brillers
L’ Alexandre
Marie
Epatchongore
Gommander i
le Tendant
le Ville de Paris
le Bretagne
Duc de Chartres
le Couronne
le Lion
L’orient
L’artifies
le Magnifique
L’ Eveuue
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