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The Virginia Gazette
Williamsburg, Virginia
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Extract from London letter dated Feb 22, 1769, reports growing national support for John Wilkes against ministerial tyranny, strong backing in west, London, Middlesex; criticizes Lord Hillsborough's deceptive enslavement efforts in America; includes Col. Barre's speech urging open taxation policy over insidious plans.
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Extracts of a letter from London, dated February 22, 1769.
The Spirit of the nation begins to rise against Ministerial tyranny, the ferment of mobs has subsided, and in its place a determined and most respectable body have associated to support WILKES and the partizans of the bill of rights. It is astonishing how Mr. WILKES's interest grows; the west is to a man most zealous in his cause, the city of London, the county of Middlesex, and the adjacent counties, are firmly attached to him. The greatest and most independent families in the House of Commons espouse his interest with great warmth, and he himself with amazing intrepidity, standing upon the firm basis of our constitution, defies their power and awes their hearts.
Lord HILLSBOROUGH is taking great pains to delude the people in America into slavery. Art and cunning is his political fort; he pursues the virus of enslaving you with easiness.
Col. BARRE, in speaking against the resolves and address, said,
"Why will you endeavour to deceive yourselves and us?
You know that it is not this place only disputes your right, but every part; they tell you that you have no right from one end of the continent to the other; my Sentiments of this matter you well know, consider well what you are doing, act openly and honestly, tell them you will tax them, and that they must submit; do not adopt this little, insidious, futile plan; they will despise you for it."
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You know that it is not this place only. dif- "putes your right, but every part; they tell you that "you have no right from one end of the continent to "the other; my Sentiments of this matter you well "know, consider well what you are doing, act openly "and honestly, tell them you will tax them, and that "they must submit; do not adopt this little, insidious, "futile plan; they will despise you for it."
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London
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February 22, 1769
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growing support for wilkes across britain; criticism of deceptive policies towards america; urging of open taxation over insidious plans.
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Rising national spirit against ministerial tyranny with respectable associations supporting Wilkes and bill of rights; widespread zeal in west, London, Middlesex; Commons families backing him; Hillsborough deluding Americans into slavery; Barre's speech against resolves, advocating honest taxation declaration.