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Newspaper
Middlesex Middlesex Journal
Location
Middlesex, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Oct 01, 1772
Page
2
The text argues that subjects enjoy protection under law against arbitrary attacks on person and property. It condemns Lords of Manors who block neighboring gentry from shooting on their lands, calling it despotism and urging united action against such misuses of power. It dismisses fears of parliamentary rebuke for defending rights.
Literary Chronicle reports letters from London liverymen arguing over Wilkes and Townsend in the hustings. The piece condemns ministerial tactics and calls out Alderman Hallifax, Shakespeare, and Burgoyne threats while urging readers to oppose corruption. A lengthy letter attacks sheriff officers for extortion and cruelty, recounting a London case where officers looted a captain’s house, took valuables, and demanded bribes, highlighting abuse and misconduct by law enforcers.
A letter from Richard Swords denounces bailiffs and their followers for extortion and law violations at the source of justice. He compares extorted sums to Rome’s popery era indulgences and calls for punishment of subordinate ministers, asserting public demand for accountability. He signs from Goldsmiths Square on Sept. 29.
Extract from the Frontiers of Poland reports on Prussian occupation of Grand Poland and Polish Prussia, with oaths to the Prussian crown and garrison plans. It covers Riga news of Courland unrest, Lord Stormont's diplomacy, India supervisors, India's payment delay, royal family events, and political moves in London. It also mentions Greenwich Hospital reforms, naval orders, and assorted country items from York, Wolverhampton, Bristol, Gosport, and Deal with fires, marriages, trials, and ship movements.
Resent prices of stocks in the political funds calculated for the meridians of London. Honour shut. Honesty ditto Candour 875 6hs. Love of mother country, Knavery the highest ever knows Dishonesty ditto Falfhood 1923 4ths. Enmity to Old England the fimes knavery.
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