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Newspaper
Middlesex Middlesex Journal
Location
Middlesex, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Sep 09, 1769
Page
3
A letter to the printer denounces corruption in government and bribery within parliament. It argues that pensioners and placeholders threaten liberty, urges a law to bar such figures from the houses, and warns that revenue and employment incentives drive subversion of public rights.
A fragmented Civil War era report notes mails arriving from Wejland France and Flanders. Courier confirms Prince Gallitzin hears of Crim Tartars and Turkish detachments massing near Chotzin. Light troops clash at dawn, enemy lines tense as cannons deployed and advances slowed.
Report from Newport describes Captain Reid’s brig and a Connecticut sloop seized in the sound. Locals stirred by captaincy provocation boarded the Liberty at anchor, cut cables, drifted her ashore, set her on fire, then salvaged powder, cut away masts and guns, destroyed furnishings, and left as a wreck by dawn. The seized brig was legally discharged on Thursday. the sloop escaped in the confusion the prior evening.
Northampton reports the estate of Sir George Smith falling to his 14 year old son after his death at Stoke near Newark. A Lincoln Castle murder scene involved James Lusby, a prisoner spared execution to transport for 14 years, who then aided authorities in exposing a three year thieves’ gang terrorizing Lincolnshire. John Lary and accomplice William Matthews were connected to the plot to destroy Lusby, with Matthews allegedly confessing to poisoning Mr Cook’s family via tainted butter.
昨日 dispatched orders were sent to His Excellency Col. Boyd, Governor of Gibraltar, from the Secretary of State. An express was sent to the commander of His Majesty's squadron in the Mediterranean. Also delivered is news of the Countess of Dumnie giving birth at Dalbgubes.
A mixed dispatch reports naval appointments and regimental moves, ships launched near Woolwich with heraldic detail, and a Copenhagen fleet buildup. It also covers a dramatic theatre collapse in Venice and various local election results, robberies, and obituaries in England including Richmond and London districts.
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