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Newspaper
Middlesex Middlesex Journal
Location
Middlesex, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jan 04, 1770
Page
4
Fragmentary OCR describes detachments marching with crape bands and black gloves. Royal mourning imagery appears with Britannia as chief mourner and petitions carried. processions include guard, chariots, and street crowds, all under military presence.
A nineteenth century transcription lists acts from 1690 to 1721 appointing commissioners to examine and state public kingdom accounts. It notes ministers at the Treasury over time and quotes William III’s speech urging yearly accounting, with references to Queen Anne and the debt owed to army transport sick and wounded services. The passage highlights public accountability and parliamentary oversight.
Fragmentary text notes commissions appointed under George I to examine state and determine debts owed to the army and subsidies from foreign princes. It references continuance of the act and deadlines in the fall year and mentions the 6th and 7th George.
The letter lauds a gentleman for humane conduct toward a artist widow. It commends the society for granting a large sum to establish her in business, enabling the family to live decently. The writer notes the treasurer holds the funds and applauds prudent economy and charity.
Private letters from Madrid Lisbon Riga and Paris report fortification orders in the South Seas and a lunatic plot. epidemics in Livonia. Indigenous revolt against the French near Lake Huron. a Salletine corsair wreck off St. Jago. eight thousand European troops near Pondicherry. a gifted China set in Vienna. silk seized in the Downs. Elphinston fleet's arrival in Plymouth. Irish Lord Lieutenant's express in Dublin. Dutch envoy's talks over dispatches amid growing harmony.
The text surveys parliamentary expectations and political tensions, reporting rumored resignations, petitions, and debates. It notes preparations for naval magazines at Milford Haven, local governance shifts, missteps of officials, and idle troops from Scotland. It closes with theatre listings and public notices detailing marriages and misfortunes.
An incomplete correspondence notes late submission to this paper with a longer letter on Royal Society transactions. It discusses teas and newspapers and argues that plates and mathematical tables may be needed to illustrate subjects. A dialogue between Furiotus and Nestor is acknowledged but cannot be excerpted without an interview with the author.
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