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Newspaper
Middlesex Journal And Evening Advertiser
Location
Middlesex, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jun 03, 1775
Page
2
An Englishman argues that ministry policies risk liberty and provoke opposition in Britain and America. He warns Prussia’s commerce plans threaten Hanover interests, condemns Jacobite motives, and questions royal favoritism toward foes, urging restraint to avoid civil strife and colonial war.
A speaker denounces faction and republican radicals stirring America, urging nobles to see the danger of civil strife. He warns Britons that American parsimony and revolt threaten commerce, taxes, and the empire, calling for reason, virtue, and shared sacrifice to uphold government.
Fragment from a political polemic condemning taxation and party opposition. It contrasts untaxed luxuries with American liberty, urging administration to pay the price of their duplicity and advance virtue. Nearby references imply a London influence and a period voice.
In this article the author argues that the ministry and allies intend to conquer America by force, but their chosen methods risk failure. It contends that attacking the back country through Canada would have trapped colonists, cut supplies, and provoked widespread disruption, while condemning high food prices and foreign imports as harmful to domestic industry and agriculture. The piece urges exposing policy costs and condemning administrative actions.
Lord North is urged to consider a nontraditional taxation plan to fund government needs. The author argues Britain suffers under heavy levies and suggests government control of key machines and stages could yield vast revenue. Somerset House could host offices to manage these services if adopted.
The speech critiques ministers for supporting foreign corn imports citing past repudiations of those ideas. It argues attention should shift to published price tables of corn to assess the situation and challenge established policy from the 1688 system.
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