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The New Hampshire Gazette
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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A high-ranking figure sent a messenger on Wednesday afternoon to dismiss a prominent commoner from service, but the commoner refused to resign without a direct formal order from the King. Offers of appointments to nobility connected to the ministry were declined while a certain king's appointee remained in a key position.
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We are further informed, that on the above Answer being received, considerable Appointments were offered: several of the Nobility and Gentry, in Connection with the present Ministry, and that they all begged to be excused from accepting any such Posts, while a certain King on every [illegible] appointed to a key Place continued in any [illegible] he had
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Wednesday Afternoon
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commoner refused resignation without formal royal order; nobility declined appointments while a certain king's appointee remained in position
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A certain great Personage sent a messenger on Wednesday afternoon to inform a great Commoner that his services were no longer needed. The Commoner replied that since his commission came directly from his Majesty, he could not resign without a formal order from the King. Upon receiving this response, considerable appointments were offered to several of the Nobility and Gentry connected with the present Ministry, but they all begged to be excused from accepting while a certain King-appointed individual continued in a key place.