The Massachusetts Spy, Or, Thomas's Boston Journal

The sudden dissolution of parliament has given rise to a great variety of conjectures, among which are the following: That it is principally occasioned by the present critical situation of affairs in North America, which renders the advice of a new parliament necessary. Others more confidently assert, that the many spirited resolutions entered into by the several candidates for seats in the new Parliament, hastened the dissolution of the old, as the Ministry did not know to what lengths such proceedings might be carried, and what trouble such spirited exertions in favour of the patriotic party might cause them. Some say the accounts lately received from the Courts of Sweden, Vienna, France and Spain, have been of so perplexing a nature, that a new Parliament was become absolutely necessary, to advise and assist his Majesty in the present alarming state of affairs.