Liberty and Loyalty in 1770 English Politics
A fiery 1770 Wallingford style text condemns Earl of Bute and the ministerial junta, calls a loyal subject to reveal enemies of the constitution, praises Wilkes and Cumberland, and laments royal mercy while urging reform to protect the nation and throne. It accuses the ministry of despotism and hints at Scottish loyalty and public peace.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Voices
Friends of Liberty
Scotland
Jance
Earl of Bute
House of Stuart
House of Hanover
Bute
Wilkes
Duke of Cumberland
Junta
Earl of
Europe
Parliament Debates and Prorogation Hurdles At Assembly
Postscript reports a Great Assembly schedule with debate on dissolving Parliament. The House of Lords sat late as Earl of Chatham failed to move an address. prorogation hinges on Anglesey peerage and other weighty affairs. Dispatches from Jamaica governor Trelawny referenced in town.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
House of Lords
Earl of Chatham
Anglesey
Toorop
Paris and Lisbon dispatches stir British court and church plans
In London a flurry of diplomatic moves unfolds as dispatches arrive from Portugal and Paris. A levee and council at St James's follow, with talks of Lord High Chancellor Lord Camden and a Navy board meeting. Reports on Oak timber shortages and proposed privateer commissions surface amid concerns over neutral wartime alignments. Violent crime touches the city as robberies occur in Southampton Row and Piccadilly, while Burlington House mourns a death.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fon. East-India Company
William Henry Lyttelton
Portugal
Don Mello de Carvalho
Earl of Weymouth
St. James’s
Earl of Harcourt
Bassador
Paris
North
Mansfield
Admiralty-office
Edward Hawke
Proby
Mediterranean
Lord Camden
Great-Britain
Sardinia
Petersburgh
Barford
Edward ‘Hughes
Southampton-row
Curling
Piccadily
Burlington-house
John
Ferret
King
Murderer in Paris Chooses Wicked Boy Street
A presiding sentence from the Chatelet recounts a felon who leaped from the gallery and fatally struck an attorney of the parliament with a pebble tied to threads in Wicked-Boy Street. He is linked to two other deaths found within the palace court and nearby. The execution has eased city fears after a spate of nightly felonies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Troubled Ottoman Provinces and Slipping Alliances
Reported in a faded text, Turkish provinces refuse aid amid a rift in affairs. Barbary powers aloof as desolation spreads among the Ottoman race. Venice reportedly plans a Levant expedition as Russia negotiates with the Republic and the Empress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
S. and
Tripoli
Algiers
Morocco
Tunis
Call
Russia
Levant
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Kidderminster
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Saltutt
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Hungary
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FaiNewgery
Schurch- Ie
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