The Virginia Gazette

When the Motion was made on Monday at Guildhall for a fresh Remonstrance, the Lord Mayor stepped forward, and informed the Livery he would advise that the Address be styled "the Address, Remonstrance, and Petition of the Livery of London, in Common Hall assembled;" for if his Majesty did not pay any Attention to this Address, it would then be Time enough for the Common Council to take the Matter up and present another, his Lordship declaring, that, for his Part, he never should either be afraid or ashamed to go to the King at the Head of the Livery, or with the Common Council, until the Grievances they laboured under were properly redressed. After a short Pause, the Address was drawn up and read to the Livery; its Contents were spirited and proper, beginning with a most pathetic Recital of the Injury sustained by the People in the Affair of the Middlesex Election; relating next the arbitrary and despotic Conduct of the House of Commons during the late Session, respecting the illegal Imprisonment of the Lord Mayor and Alderman Oliver, for having kept their Oaths as Magistrates for the City, and particularly enlarging upon the amazing Stroke of Tyranny exercised in their erasing the Record of a judicial Proceeding, thereby assuming a Power unknown to the Crown, and unknown to the Courts of Law; also the arbitrary Act of the Durham Yard Embankment; and, finally, desiring his Majesty to dissolve the Parliament, and put for ever from his Presence those Ministers who, by their wicked and designing Arts, had persuaded him to issue his Proclamation for apprehending the Printers, contrary to the known Laws of the Land. The Address met with the unanimous Approbation of all present.