To the PRINTER. A Certain Judge, at an Assize, declared it from the Bench, as his Opinion, that every man had a legal right to chastise his wife, if she was stubborn and obstinate; but then he observed, that his right ought to be exercised with great lenity and moderation. It seems our Lawyers are…
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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…
A Defense of the Americans
A New Englandman to the Printer of the London Chronicle: A Defense of the Americans To the Printer of the CHRONICLE. SIR, While the public attention is so much turned towards America, every letter from thence that promises new information, is pretty generally read; it seems therefore the more necessary that care should be taken…