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The Duke of York’s Travels

To the Printer of the Public Advertiser. SIR, I have observed all the News-papers have of late taken great Liberties with a noble Personage nearly allied to his Majesty. They have one Day made him Commander of a Fleet in the Mediterranean; again in the Channel; then to hoist his Flag on board a Yatcht,…

A Narrative of the Late Massacres

in Lancaster County, of a Number of Indians, Friends of this Province, by Persons Unknown With Some Observations on the Same These Indians were the Remains of a Tribe of the Six Nations, settled at Conestogoe, and thence called Conestogoe Indians. On the first Arrival of the English in Pennsylvania, Messengers from this Tribe came…

The Jesuit Campanella’s Means of Disposing the Enemy to Peace

To the Printer of the London Chronicle. SIR, I send you for your excellent Paper, an extract from the famous Jesuit Campanella‘s discourses address’d to the King of Spain, intituled, Of the Meanes of extending the Greatnesse of the Spanish Monarchie. The language is a little antiquated, being the old translation in the edition of…

Humourous Reasons for Restoring Canada

Mr. Chronicle, We Britons are a nation of statesmen and politicians; we are privy councellors by birthright; and therefore take it much amiss when we are told by some of your correspondents, `that it is not proper to expose to public view the many good reasons there are for restoring Canada,’ (if we reduce it.)…

Those Who Would Have Peace with France

A Description of Those, Who, at Any Rate, Would Have a Peace with France The two prevailing motives among us, which strongly bias great numbers of people, at this time, to wish for a peace with France, let the terms be ever so dishonourable, ever so disadvantageous, or likely to prove of ever so short…