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Newspaper
Middlesex Middlesex Journal
Location
Middlesex, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
May 02, 1769
Page
3
Vate tuition for gentlemen and ladies to qualify for merchant's office, army, navy, or public service. Instruction at home or abroad with experienced tutors. One month probation available, no fee for attendance. Fencing taught. printed terms available on request.
London reports cast doubt on Middlesex freeholders count claiming about 2820 attended a contested election. London and Dublin observers relay anxiety over Wilkes election news. Also noted are sessions at Guildhall Hicks's Hall and various appointed chaplains, maritime dispatches, prison populations, sailor shortages, militia embodi ments, and a Newcastle upon Tyne representative instruction to defend habeas corpus and jury rights.
An European plenipotentiary minister living here was seized by a long illness and spent days visiting noble houses to tell of his trunks being opened at the Custom-house. Authorities tightened searches at Kent ports for coffers directed to a suspected contraband trader tied to a diplomat. Public sentiment builds around a loyal address promising weighty matters for Middlesex freeholders.
A pastiche of notices and extracts lampoons electioneering, court reports, crimes, and social gossip from 1769. It references Parliament, the East India Company, a Paris ambassador, a Duke decoyed to infamy, expected executions, and various London notices about riots, hearings, and public intrigue. The items are unconnected, reproducing sensational snippets and announced reprints.
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