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The New Hampshire Gazette And Historical Chronicle
Portsmouth, Greenland, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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On March 6, 1769, an address from the Lord Lieutenant, nobility, high sheriff, grand jury, gentlemen, and clergy of Essex County, assembled at the Chelmsford assizes on March 2, was presented to King George III at St. James's. It expresses gratitude for his mild government, condemns recent sedition and riots disturbing public order, and pledges support to uphold royal authority and the constitution against such threats.
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From the LONDON GAZETTE.
St. James's, March 6.
The following Address of the Lord Lieut. and Nobility, High Sheriff, Grand Jury, Gentlemen, and Clergy of the County of Essex, was this day presented to His Majesty by Daniel Mathew, Esq; High Sheriff of the said County, being introduced by the Lord of his Majesty's Bed-Chamber in waiting, which Address was most graciously received.
To the KING's Most Excellent MAJESTY.
The humble Address of the Lord Lieut. and Nobility, High Sheriff, Grand Jury, Gentlemen, & Clergy, assembled at the Assizes held at Chelmsford, in and for the County of Essex, on Thursday the Second Day of March, 1769.
Most Gracious Sovereign,
WHILST we feel the happy effect, and retain in our breasts a most grateful sense of the mildness and benignity of Your Majesty's Government, we cannot see, without the utmost abhorrence, the spirit of sedition & licentiousness, which hath lately manifested itself in such various shapes, with design to lessen the respect and affection due to Your Majesty, to traduce and misrepresent Your Parliament, and draw into contempt the authority of the Courts of Justice, which in no time were more happily or more eminently supplied.
Every part of the conduct of these disturbers of the public repose appears to us as weak and unreasonable as it is wicked; yet we think such proceedings, if not timely checked, may operate to subvert the Constitution, and destroy that Liberty, which hath been made the specious but false pretence for committing outrages of the most dangerous and alarming kind.
Already the Metropolis hath been frightened from its security. Your Majesty's repose in the seat of Your Government hath been most insolently invaded, and the lawful administration of Justice violently obstructed. It therefore becomes our duty, as Friends to the Constitution and faithful subjects to Your Majesty, to lay these our sentiments at the foot of Your Throne, relying, with the firmest confidence, on Your Majesty's wisdom and justice for the exertion of such prudent and vigorous measures as may restore peace and good order amongst us. And we do assure Your Majesty, that, being fully persuaded that the preservation of the public tranquility and our own safety are inseparable from the security of Your Majesty's Government, we are determined, at the risque of our lives and properties, to support Your Royal Authority in suppressing and subduing all seditious and riotous attempts, which threaten destruction to the State, and disturb the happiness and honour of Your Reign.
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Essex
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March 6, 1769
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address most graciously received; signatories pledge support at risk of lives and properties to suppress sedition and restore order.
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Address from Lord Lieut., nobility, high sheriff, grand jury, gentlemen, and clergy of Essex, assembled at Chelmsford assizes on March 2, 1769, presented to His Majesty at St. James's by Daniel Mathew, Esq. It praises the King's mild government, condemns sedition and licentiousness aimed at undermining respect for the King, Parliament, and courts, notes disturbances in the metropolis including invasion of the King's repose and obstruction of justice, and assures determination to support royal authority against such threats.