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Portsmouth, Greenland, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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Satirical report from London on the backlash against the Stamp Act in North America, where public resistance has forced stamp distributors from their positions, disgracing the former British ministry and its supporters.
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Oh! the Bomb has burst in North-America,
and the Stamp-Distributors are, by the ex-
plosion, all blown out of their places. What a
miscarriage of policy has this proved to the good
old Woman the late budget-monger & Financier,
who is now become roused in the funds as to be
disgraced, as a politician, for ever.
Poor Messieurs Anti-Sejanus, Detector and Co.
(writers in favor of the late ministry) what, in the
name of wonder, will become of your mighty ma-
stters and their cause? Their darling project blown
up, now annihilates all hope; for the people who
only despised them before, begin now heartily to
hate them: O that their case is at length become
a most desperate one indeed.
What, Gentlemen, let me ask you, can you have
farther to say for your Masters? You have all got
upon a quick-sand, and your bark of a cause must
quite bulge. I know but of one expedient left
you to try for saving it, and that is, by roundly
asserting the American Mobs have been spirited
up by the present administration; which will at
least appear as plausible as that which was said to
have been used on a similar occasion, which was,
that the Favourite had spirited up the late Spital-
fields mob.
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Foreign News Details
Primary Location
North America
Event Date
As Of October 1765
Outcome
stamp-distributors all blown out of their places; miscarriage of policy disgracing the late ministry; people now hating the ministry.
Event Details
The Stamp Act policy has failed dramatically in North America with public explosion forcing all distributors from positions; this disgraces the former financier and ministry supporters, annihilating their cause as public hatred grows; suggestion that mobs were incited by current administration as a defense.