29 Dec 1772
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Newspaper
Middlesex Middlesex Journal
Location
Middlesex, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Dec 29, 1772
Page
1
A fragmentary historical note laments partisan divides and calls for humane policy. It critiques Whiggish factions, praises benevolent rulers, and condemns oppression while denouncing public figures for failed reform. The piece mingles reflections on liberty, gender roles, and the duties of citizens amid social distress.
A Morning Chronicle excerpt argues for enforcing Elizabethan and early Stuart laws to clear beggars from London streets. It urges parish workhouses and apprenticeships, with overseers and Justices of the Peace to compel employment, and threatens houses of correction for loafers, aiming to reduce crime and poverty through structured relief.
Reports from Petersburg to Vienna describe the French envoy Durand presenting credentials to Empress Catherine and a push for a diet in Vienna Berlin and Petersbourg. Courts threaten action if peace talks stall while Warsaw braces for a crown relinquishment and a muttered credit to a king’s gravity amid mockery by peers.
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