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The New Hampshire Gazette And Historical Chronicle
Portsmouth, Greenland, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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Extract from a December 26 London letter, reported in Hartford on February 17, describes British Parliament's debate on addressing the King's Speech, where Mr. G-re labeled American resistance to the Stamp Duty as open rebellion, leading to members shouting 'To the Tower!'
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Extract of a Letter from London, dated Dec. 26.
"I Have not much of the political Kind, to send you: The Parliament has met, and adjourned to the 24th of January; there was considerable Debate in the House, on forming an Address in Answer to the King's Speech; Mr. G-re expressed himself very warmly on the late Behaviour of the Americans, calling their Transactions in Opposition to the Stamp Duty open Rebellion, instead of Lyrx Occurences, which the King termed them in his Speech. This occasioned sundry Members to cry, To the Tower! To the Tower!"
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London
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Dec. 26
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The Parliament met and adjourned to the 24th of January; there was considerable debate in the House on forming an Address in Answer to the King's Speech; Mr. G-re expressed himself very warmly on the late Behaviour of the Americans, calling their Transactions in Opposition to the Stamp Duty open Rebellion, instead of Lyrx Occurences, which the King termed them in his Speech. This occasioned sundry Members to cry, To the Tower! To the Tower!