11 Feb 1775
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Newspaper
Middlesex Journal And Evening Advertiser
Location
Middlesex, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Feb 11, 1775
Page
1
The piece reports on military moves and civic events including officers preparing for action, appointments in the Army and Navy, and remarks on bread prices and public order. It also records assorted crimes, highway robbery, assaults, and hospital or public notices with local anecdotes about Bolton and London life.
A distressed notice indicates loans may be advanced to certain nobles and others upon submitting bonds or securities. Applicants must contact Mr John Ng at No 27 Charlotte Street near Middles Hospital. Letters answered promptly upon receipt. Requests may be held until two o clock before sheriff. Meri is always at home until four.
Reported intelligence from Amsterdam, Lemberg, Padolia, and Moldavia describes Austrian troop movements toward Paroslav and near Choc it Coan, with emphasis on readiness to monitor nobles and extend into Moldavia and Valachia. Pan-European diplomatic chatter mentions Papal conclave relics, talks of potential open rupture between powers, and a Minorca commander Johnstone voyage to Pisa with family aboard an English frigate.
Lord North presents a bill in the House of Commons restricting the Massachusetts Bay, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Connecticut from trade with Great Britain and the West Indies and excluding them from Newfoundland fisheries. He argues compliance merits privileges. Mr. Danning denounces the measure as cruel and oppressive.
A parliamentary session features heated arguments on rebellion in the four colonies Massachusetts Bay New Hampshire Rhode Island and Connecticut. Speakers including the Attorney General Gov Johnston and Sir George Savile clash over definitions and consequences while Massachusets leadership warns against cruel measures harming colonial ties.
Report notes the royal Chapel service at St James's with Prince and nobles present including Duke of St Albans Richmond Dorset Manchester Gordon Chandois and Lord Chancellor Mansfield. After the drawing room the Earls Rochford and Sandwich met the King for private conference.
In Hereford on February 9 a crowd assaulted the county gaol demanding release of two prisoners. Gunfire erupted, James Greenhonne was killed by a firearm, others wounded, and rioters dispersed after authorities patrolled the city. An inquest the next day deemed the death accidental or from a shot during the riot.
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