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Newspaper
Middlesex Middlesex Journal
Location
Middlesex, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Oct 31, 1772
Page
4
A vehement plea condemns the ministry for misinforming Parliament and persecuting reformers. It warns of growing public resentment if the charter is defeated and Wilkes is deprived of Middlesex mayoral rights. The piece invokes historical writs and calls for remedy before divine judgment.
The text presents Miles Button Allen’s postscript speech in Guildhall urging defense of the constitution. He denounces violent measures by a profligate party and warns against despotism, urging fellow citizens to oppose measures threatening subject liberty and to resist royal or aristocratic encroachment. The rhetoric condemns moderation in the face of constitutional violence and calls for vigilance.
A delivered oration denounces wealth-corrupted leadership and urges citizens to demand principled government. The speaker warns against tolerating a tyrannical mayor, calls for scrutiny of political principles, and demands that instructions to Parliament be recorded, with heated applause from the crowd.
Letter from Zell dated Oct 20 describes the Queen Caroline Matilda arriving with retinue from Goerde castle escorted by Springer dragoons and local traders. Citizens lined with colors, royal compliments paid by Mecklenburgh princes, gala to be held at Court, royal household en route from Hanover.
A jumble of notices from London society and government opens with diplomatic hints from Constantinople about peace through Britain. The Court of King's Bench and Exchequer events unfold, while Aldermanic ceremonies and Harrow-age chatter fill the day. Reports of Hogarthian gossip, election puffery, and wagers mix with East India Company recruitment and a marriage at St. Andrew's Holborn.
Theatrical listings show yesterday's program at Drury Lane including The Gamesters and The Irish Widow with Benedick by Mr Garrick and a Miss in her Teens. Covent Garden offered Romeo and Juliet with Mother Shipton and this Evening Rule a Wife and Have a Wife with Comus.
To our correspondents note two items on Thursday and Saturday. The Poet's Parley with his empty purse and Juvenil are on Thursday. The letter in behalf of the Clergy appears in our next Humanity on Saturday.
A fragmented stock list shows South Sea and Indian annuities with various percentages and fractions, including 3 percent redemptions, Navy and Victualling Bills, and bonds priced in shillings. The entry references Waite and Tr. No. 1A and a day at one o'clock, with broker location Ombard-street noted as a stock broker office.
Poleo will cover mares next season at the Duke of A1cHMOOND's Good wood in Sussex for three guineas each mare and a crown the servant. Good grass for mares at 35 6d per week. Apollo bred by Cuthbert Routh and later owned by Jennison Shafto. He won the Sweep at Huntingdon at age four and beat Dapper for 500 guineas at five.
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