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Newspaper
Middlesex Middlesex Journal
Location
Middlesex, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Feb 24, 1770
Page
4
Fragmentary verse laments taxation and government neglect. A speaker condemns ministers, declares false virtue, and predicts ruin as the horned race stands in defiance. The plea demands national action against corrupt power and calls for renewed rights.
A loyal Briton writes to Queen Caroline urging intervention with George III to stop parliament-bypassing policies. He laments royal indecision, warns of tyranny, pleads for the king to defend liberties and avert civil strife, promising eternal gratitude if the measures succeed.
Reports from Rome Paris and Berlin describe the Pope's favorable relations with Lisbon while noting a court transaction over Corsica. A Tyrian baptism is reported, and a Genoa Guardian memorial challenges a 1764 guaranty. A Mount Martyr case limits a paternity claim with an 800 livre annual maintenance order. Portugal notes Spanish encroachments and Berlin signals plans for a Brufian Asiatic Company.
Naples reports that a man rode up to the King of Spain while he hunted. Two Lords of the King's household questioned him and ordered him to depart after he gave inconsistent answers. The King claimed the men had saved his life and expressed concern for his safety.
Portmouth reports Capt. Collier takes command of the Tweed frigate replacing Capt. Collingwood who ends a three year term. Admiral Elphinston's morning and evening gun on his ship draws ire from Admiral Geary who orders action. a signal to captains and a guardship commander’s dispatch to the Admiralty follows. The Centaur 74 gun ship undergoes major repairs and will be commissioned as a guardship next spring tide replacing the Dragon. The Otter floop of war arrives to dock in harbor.
Reports claim transports to Cork are prepared to move a regiment to Gibraltar. General Paoli tours Portsmouth to observe the Ruffians. Bellas is in good health and L-y G is lodging publicly in St James’s. A Soho Square masquerade is praised for decorum and wealth. A wealthy young woman departs for Scotland with a guardian chaplain. A Han cock shop is robbed of goods valued at thirty one pounds. A chandler in Fetter Lane robbery yields the till. A laboring woman delivers twins after falling among workers in Snow Hill. Multiple notices to the public warn of inheritance and medals. Two vases drift on water amid inscriptions.
A draft note arrives from Decius and will be printed next Saturday. The paper’s proprietor expresses deep thanks for the fresh obligation. An ensuing remark from Benevolus’s angry keteer invites a direct question to the writer.
A letter from Ham Lane Essex credits the use of Marchant's Drops for a severe scurvy with leg lesions and stomach sickness. The writer, cured, urges publication and directs readers to Norton the surgeon at Golden Square London, listing multiple dispensing locations and urging confidence in the remedy's efficacy.
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