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Newspaper
Middlesex Middlesex Journal
Location
Middlesex, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Oct 05, 1769
Page
2
Poets Corner laments exile and law’s reach as Britannia stands firm defending liberty. The speaker urges virtuous citizens to curb power’s insolence and rally monarchs to hear rights. God and heaven may reward the struggle for freedom with lasting fame.
London October 6 Mayor elect of Canterbury opened his year with a formal dinner and a proposal to present a petition to the King. Citizens debated grievances and election rights urging regularity and calm while reading a draft petition praising the monarch and asking attention to distressed subjects.
A disrupted 18th century petition session is described with anger toward venal officials and royal restraint. The meeting adjourned with assent to leave the petition at Guildhall for inhabitants to sign, while reports of a wound, a trial, and arrests in Spitalfields accompany the chaos in Lambeth and nearby streets.
A reader forwards a fragment from Yorkshire discussing British subjects, freeholders, and parliamentary representation. The writer stresses public authenticity, constitutional law, and the duty of freeholders to understand the petition and its implications for governance.
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