North Briton in London, Middlesex

Loyalist Militia Reviews and Court News From Edinburgh

The piece reports a Hyde Park review of two new Highland regiments by the Duke of Inverness and notes the Earl of London’s potential command against Louisburg with Capt. Abercrombie as aide. It covers the Marquis of Kirkudbright’s arrival at Holyrood, Dublin greetings, arrests for seditious toasts, theatre reshufflings, heirs restored to noble titles, Lord Lovat as lord high commissioner, a Portsmouth naval entertainment naming Falkirk and Preston Pans, and orders restricting calves or cods heads. It also mentions Whig trials at the Old Bailey, and the death of John Duke of Peebles with praise for his treasury leadership and cultural reforms.