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Newspaper
Middlesex Middlesex Journal
Location
Middlesex, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Mar 01, 1770
Page
4
A 1710 Middlesex Journal excerpt features Sir John Packing’s speech on liberty, noting parliamentary abuses, an imposed new charter on an ancient borough, and the erosion of constitutional rights. He condemns arbitrary power, quo warranto tactics, and the quiet spread of tyranny affecting Britain’s legal framework.
A 1708 parliamentary crisis is recalled with sharp attack on a charter used to curb elections. The speaker argues it enables Parliament to punish ministers, depose capable officials, and suppress liberty, warning of Crown dissolutions and reshaping elections. The tone urges unity over party lines to defend liberty and property.
Postscript reports FCHE court preparations for a grand jewelry gift worth about 27,000 pounds to accompany Archduchess Antionetta on a Versailles frontier visit, while Empress hosts feasts and the Emperor mourns his daughter. A British ambassador returns from London, and Geneva notes a thwarted city conspiracy with revolters captured. Ashore, four dead wash ashore near Marennia and a Genoese captain's corpse is found.
Reports describe a mysterious cloaked man who travels with two attendants and speaks multiple languages, while the city’s hill shows signs of dissolution after storms. Letters from Brest warn of Madagascar colonies endangered by natives, and Brest letters claim French ordnance exports to Ganza. St Petersburgh notes a czarina plans a large summer fleet on the Euxine Black Seas with Caspian forces to aid Persians against Turks.
Port-New s Portmouth March 1 Admiral Elphinton has defitted from firing a morning and evening gun due to an express from London A Ruffian 60 gun ship of Elphinton s squadron is in dock when out again the Ruffian three deckers will go in A new method in the dockyard seasons and preserves ship timbers by standing them upright bearing holes for saltpetre and leaving them for a week or more to improve efficiency The timbers and planks for the Princess Royal a co gun ship now on the stocks are undergoing this operation
London reports describe the Dover petition hearing where Sir T. P. Hales is named duly elected and freemen out-dwellers are confirmed. A remonstrance from Lords and Commons may reach a great personage soon. Meanwhile ministers discuss American operations, European dispatches arrive, and Birmingham Sheffield Manchester artificers join larger commissions for North America amid alarming continental expresses.
A long illness lasting ix days ended in death after a series of remedies. Seattle doctor Bardana failed to ease symptoms while laxatives briefly helped. The narrative recalls a violent tremor and a grim scene in Fleet Market where oxen were driven, frightening a pregnant woman and a girl, as bystanders watched.
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