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Newspaper
Middlesex Middlesex Journal
Location
Middlesex, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Nov 10, 1772
Page
4
A published letter criticizes a clergyman for endorsing passive obedience and urging public harmony while accusing ministers of overstepping liberties. The author condemns biased praise of the king, calls out Sabbath profanation, and demands moral consistency from church and state figures, naming several supporters and critics in a 1772 dispute.
A dated Sept 18 1772 letter from gun merchant James Morton at Roseat Dominique to a friend in Camberwell recounts a severe hurricane. It details heavy losses at sea with thirteen ships wrecked, damages across Antigua St Kitts Nevis St Barts Montserrat and Guadaloupe, and confirms vessels stranded and sugar cargo losses.
Distress in the French colonies from late Caribbean hurricanes may disrupt planned disturbances to public peace. Protests in the East Indies were ruined by Mauritius hurricanes last year, with many dying or lost at sea. This year sugar islands suffer the same fate alongside British colonies. Circular letters summon ministerial MPs to London before Parliament to discuss urgent questions. Rumors of an England Ireland Union and a lottery to fund government debt surface. A bill to curb gambling in Exchange Alley follows recent public credit decay. A War Office packet sails to Portsmouth for St Vincent’s governor. The Lord Chancellor presides at Westminster Hall in Chancery with petitions for time to hearings.
An 18th century glimpse shows Court of Common Pleas and Chancery sessions, King's Bench auditors, and a Halifax Nova Scotia officer letter lamenting long military relief in America. Local rants touch riot at Guildhall, prices of distillery and malt, brewing and farming tensions, property sales near Norwood, matchmaking for a famous horse, New River issues, and public notices about rioters and nuisances.
A clerkenwell man keeps a number of affes on Finchley Common and recovers them after they stray into Mr Townsend's manor. Davis mistook Townsend for a hero of the Lord Mayor’s Livery. Mrs Wilson’s body returns from Westminster for a funeral at St Stephen’s Warbroke with hymns by charity children. Friday taft dies at Tooley Street aged 68. Col Ramsey, a singular but good fortune gentleman, noted.
The Drury Lane bills show Cymon with The First Widow by command of Their Majesties, and King Arthur with Wil's Last Stake at Covent Garden tonight. Also listed are Yesterday King Henry the Eighth with The Country Mad-Cap and The Inconstant with Daphne and Amitor.
Correspondents note that the Argus is received and will be inserted. The memorial of the Captains in the Army to His Majesty was inserted in this paper in August.
Bank, South Sea, Old S S Ann, New S S Ann, India Ann values listed with 3 per cent and 4 per cent yields. Consols and bonds noted with percentages and fractions. Navy and Victualling bills long annuities and tickets shown with prices.
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