13 Mar 1770
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Newspaper
Middlesex Middlesex Journal
Location
Middlesex, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Mar 13, 1770
Page
1
March 5 1770 letter from W Publius appeals to the British king to restore violated laws and curb ministers alleged to mislead policy. It denounces judges and rulers for betraying franchise, warns of deluge of tyranny, and urges open royal oversight and repentance. Signed Publius with strong language targeting governance and liberty.
An early modern petition from Birmingham Macclesfield and others pleads with the monarch to banish Button Makers from the realm. It warns fashionable trends could see nobles and ministers adopting button making, threatening bread and loyalty. The petition urges justice, redress of grievances, and revival of trade and liberty.
Morning, March 11, 1770, a single highwayman attacked the Chester mail coach near Shepherd and Shepherders, took a small mail with bags from Barnet to Bedford, offering a reward of two hundred pounds plus a royal pardon for apprehension or discovery leading to conviction. Anthony Todd, Secretary, signed by command of the Postmaster-General.
Thomas Smith offers a varied stock at the corner of Butcher Row and Temple Bar including carpets in Persia Turkey Wilton Kidderminster and Scotch patterns. Also ready made bedsteads bedding and furniture with feathers quilts and curtains, all on the lowest terms for ready money.
The text advertises LoZenges for Coughs and hoarseness from T Greenovadu Apothecary at No 7 Ludgate Street London. It claims to ease throat pain bronchial defluxions and shortness of breath and notes counterfeiting prosecutions in 1769. It lists retailers W Bayley Cockspur Street A Rothwell New Bond Street and A Jolly Bid.
A government account describes motives for trusting the siege medicine and its effects on the author’s gout. It includes cases of patients of rank cured or under cure, with a narrative of Dr. Le Fevre’s powders. An appendix lists a Liege house, road inns, and road expenses with the author’s prints and booksellers.
An 18th century style advertisement for a sensational memoir titled The Memoirs of Mitls Arabella Bolton. It promises a candid account of seduction abuse and distress drawn from letters of CL L and others, offered by publishers at Printer’s Row.
A historical advertisement describes a published work with copper plate engravings of views and cattle across various counties. It lists portraits like The North West View of Ludlow Cattle and The North East View of Nunney Castle, noting contents include antiquities, geography, and lives of notable men. The series spans several counties with plans for sixty numbers and forty eight plates, available as specimens.
An advertisement lists a neat pocket volume titled Genuine Memoirs of Mifg Faulkner and other works published by William Bingley in King’s Bench Prison. It advertises translations and editions including An Defence of Woman, the Original North Briton, and the Continuation of a famed work, with prices and where to buy. It promotes access to scandalous intrigues and letters involving notable figures, targeting readers of printed curiosities.
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