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Newspaper
Middlesex Middlesex Journal
Location
Middlesex, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Dec 06, 1770
Page
4
An unnamed speaker criticizes a Lord for addressing national defence. He argues the burden of defending the country should not fall only on the common people but on the great as well. He urges a principled stance and cautions against unworthy rhetoric.
Yesterday dispatches from Sir John Hort Britain’s Consul General at the Court of Portugal reached the Earl of Weimmsard. Hawke’s fate discussed with a fee demanded by State’s office in Cleveland. Latest Trench Court breathes no strong peace prospect. Insurance premium on ships and merchandise fell three percent at underwriting offices.
A sprawling lettered update reports British feints in Parliament and French-Spanish intrigues, with notices of naval movements from Plymouth and Irish stations. It details robberies, deaths, child accidents, and a surge of foreign sailors entering English service, plus court access reforms and royal complaints from Smyrna to Vienna.
This evening at Drury Lane will present Cymbeline and Jubilee. Covent Garden features Love in a Village and Watch the Rape of Proserpine.
The City of Cure Hester advertises a six pound annual fee for board tuition and instruction in languages and belles lettres plus arithmetic book-keeping and drawing. Classes include writing, dancing, and airts. On the 18th instant, the Christmas vacation begins with a ceremony where students present specimens of their work to visiting parents for judgment of teaching methods.
Incomplete notice describes arrival and movements of ships including Tartar and Montague at Spithead, with mentions of captains Glover and Onflow, and a large number of volunteers. Details are garbled but indicate James-era naval activity and impressment at the Downs.
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