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Newspaper
Middlesex Middlesex Journal
Location
Middlesex, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Sep 25, 1770
Page
4
Fragmentary notice refers to a sheriff calling a county meeting on Castle Hill. Mentions assembling to address bounty and poor relief. Text is garbled but indicates a local county gathering with statewide or parish authority. Possibly historical public notice or advertisement.
A Norfolk miscellany from the Norwich Mercury dated September 15 adds playful verse and orthographic puzzles. The note references a writerly caution toward A Negus and urges readers to puzzle through lines about the profession, with a nod to Grays Inn and local St. John’s in Madder-Market.
A long list names many gentlemen who voted against the Lords Amendments to the Protestant Succession Bill. The document records SR Stonehouse and numerous peers and esquires such as Simon Harcourt, Henry Parker, George Granville, Samuel Musgrave, Thomas Coke, John Curzon, and John Verney among others. It is a dated political roll from the era, reflecting parliamentary opposition to the Hanover succession.
Our readers are urged to preserve this paper dated Saturday the 15th instant for future anecdotes and remarks about sundry persons of distinction in lifts. References to the lifts will be requested as they appear.
A letter from a Bishopsgate Ward liveryman urges the Middlesex Journal to publish a test of sincerity regarding political reliance on the Crown. It questions ministerial influence, contract prolongation, and future emoluments, and threatens continued suspicion of partisanship if unsatisfied, while defending the paper as serving the public.
The Middle Sex Journal notes the Westminster palace project is shelved, with funds redirected to an extensive Holyrood-house range in Edinburgh. The piece claims this shifts money to loyal subjects and spares travel miles and fatigue to London. It mentions Sir Sydney Stafford Smythe becoming a professed Methodist and hymn singing at Tunbridge chapel.
Postscript notes Sept 27, a Grand Council will be held in Richmond to discuss the Spain crisis. Lords North Caltham Rochford to attend. British Ambassador to Madrid delayed by Falkland Islands news. Favourite sloop papers lodged. dispatches from Port Mahon arrive.
Reports claim Britain fears Spain and France plan a major blow in the West Indies while negotiations with Lisbon threaten war. Militia mobilizations for Jamaica and windward islands are described, with additional dispatches of troops, supplies, and privateers to bolster coastal defenses amid unrest and potential alliances.
War talk swells as crews rush to ready ships at Spithead. ANZA cutter sails under Lieutenant for Downs to escort merchantmen. Twenty four fellows seized for smuggling. press is issued. Royal William, Sandwich, Lenox, Warwick, Bellona, and St Antonia to sail. 500 men to Faulkland’s Island en route.
A damaged OCR snippet lists various bonds and stocks with unclear prices and terms. Mentions Bank Stock, South Sea Stock, Navy and Victualling Bills, Excheque Bills, Lottery Tickets, and percentage changes with cryptic annotations. Lacks clear entities or coherent narrative.
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