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Newspaper
Middlesex Middlesex Journal
Location
Middlesex, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Feb 17, 1770
Page
1
A London notice from January 1770 records W G Edmunds promising secrecy for authors of periodicals in Suez Lane and St Andrews Holborn. He vows to publish essays without alteration, and to destroy manuscripts after press. Requests for manuscript returns should be in large letters at the end.
In a sweeping Welsh broadside dated 1770, a writer urges the Gentlemen Clergy and Freeholders to unite for redress of grievances against a Tory-led government. He rails at oppression tax policies and calls meetings to petition the throne, praising King George III and condemning perceived tyranny. Reports from Madrid Vienna Warsaw and Antwerp note international warfare and regional disturbances as context.
Mon day February 19 reports the Sardinian king in better health though still confined to his chamber. A day earlier he received his Ministers and transacted business for a time, signaling cautious recovery. Venice notes govern ment orders in the marine department as the Russian fleet nears the Levant. The Senate aims to preserve friendship with Petersbourg and Constantinople, aware neutrality will be hard to maintain amid likely incidents.
On Tuesday a farmer’s servant Benjamin Burling was charged on oath with abutting and attempting to commit a rape on a child on the Cambridge to Girton road. Earlier, Richard Ball alias Scarlet, a post-chaise driver, was committed to gaol on suspicion of aiding a Salisbury‑gaol inmate in robbing the mail between Marlborough and Beckington, for which he had been discharged previously for lack of evidence.
London reports describe royal chapel rites with the sword bearer, courtly entertainments in Piccadilly, and whispers of upcoming government appointments. Mentions of Lord Beauchamp, pension deals, and parliamentary maneuvers hint at tensions between ministers, the Nobility, and the King’s advisers amid brewing shifts in the Board of Trade and law reforms.
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