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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
May 02, 1775
Page
4
A London Evening Post letter denounces the Ministry for tyrannical American measures. It argues the Crown and Ministers, not Parliament, drive unjust policies, threatening civil war and the bloodshed of subjects. It condemns the minister’s actions and warns of national anger if catastrophe ensues. The piece contrasts past Mary I cruelties with current alleged, mass persecutions.
A London reader condemns violent prerogative acts affecting elections, warns Whigs and Tories, and cites the danger of costly office fees. Meanwhile letters from New York and Boston report rioting over inferior court votes, massing arms, and General Gage seizing cartridges as Massachusetts resists Parliament acts.
A new society calling itself The Ladies Club purchases Sir George Colebroke’s home in Arlington Street for 13 000 guineas. Mr Cullen acts as wafer of revels with a yearly ten pound subscription and a potential douceur if the venture dissolves in ten years. Males may be admitted via ladies introducing two gentlemen.
London advices report on April 6 that on April 28, 173 South Carolina deputies met at Charleston, read the American Bill of Rights, and approved an association opposing royal finance. They discuss the civil list’s debt, ministerial grants, and the proposed 600,000 pounds, while listing officers for new companies of invalids to be quartered in Scotland and noting losses at sea and French naval movements.
A dense mix of art critiques and lottery notices. It references Virgil and a painter noted for small figures, followed by a long report on the state lottery plan under Lord North’s budget, detailing subscription rules, ticket pricing, and prize distribution. It also reports a murder, robberies, deaths, weather, and stock prices in fragmented form.
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