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[BROADSIDE]. Philadelphia, February 6, 1779. By an Express just arrived from the Hon. Samuel Chase, Esq. at Annapolis to the Hon. Mr. [John] Henry (Delegate in Congress for Maryland) we have His Britannic Majesty's Speech to his Parliament, taken from a late London Paper. From the General Advertiser and Morning Intelligencer of November 27, 1778. House of Lords. This day the King...made the following Speech..., [Philadelphia:] Hall and Sellers [1779]. 4to, edges untrimmed, spotted. Printed in two columns. Not in Evans, or Shipton & Mooney or Bristol and APPARENTLY UNRECORDED, but c.f. Evans 15836 for another printing of the same speech.
A UNIQUE PRINTING OF KING GEORGE'S ADDRESS TO PARLIAMENT ON FRENCH INTERVENTION IN AMERICA
An American broadside printing of George III's important address to both houses of Parliament on 27 November l778, in the wake of France's decision to support the rebellious North American colonies. As stated in the head-line, the text is taken from a London newspaper which found its way, three months later, into the hands of Samuel Chase, the Maryland Signer and patriot. In early 1778 a treaty of amity and commerce (recognizing American independence) and another of alliance had been agreed between France and the United States; these were ratified by the U.S. Congress in May. Hostilities between England and France broke out on the seas in June. In his address to Parliament, King George announces that he has "called you together in a conjuncture which demands your most serious attention. In the time of profound peace, without pretence or provocation...the Court of France hath not forborne to disturb the public tranquility, in violation of the faith of treaties and the general Rights of Sovereigns, at first by the clandestine supply of arms and other aid to my revolted subjects in North America, and afterwards by openly avowing their support and entering into formal arrangements with the leaders of the rebellion, and at length, by committing open hostilities and depredations...., and by an actual invasion of my dominions in America and the West-Indies." He is taking, he announces, "proper and necessary means for disappointing the malignant designs of our enemies, and also for making general reprisals," but confesses that "it would have accorded me very great satisfaction to have informed you that the conciliatory measures....[had] brought the troubles in North-America to a happy conclusion." At the end of his address, George he calls for the support of Parliament for the necessary measures "adequate to the present emergency," which "cannot fail of making us safe at home and respected abroad."
A UNIQUE PRINTING OF KING GEORGE'S ADDRESS TO PARLIAMENT ON FRENCH INTERVENTION IN AMERICA
An American broadside printing of George III's important address to both houses of Parliament on 27 November l778, in the wake of France's decision to support the rebellious North American colonies. As stated in the head-line, the text is taken from a London newspaper which found its way, three months later, into the hands of Samuel Chase, the Maryland Signer and patriot. In early 1778 a treaty of amity and commerce (recognizing American independence) and another of alliance had been agreed between France and the United States; these were ratified by the U.S. Congress in May. Hostilities between England and France broke out on the seas in June. In his address to Parliament, King George announces that he has "called you together in a conjuncture which demands your most serious attention. In the time of profound peace, without pretence or provocation...the Court of France hath not forborne to disturb the public tranquility, in violation of the faith of treaties and the general Rights of Sovereigns, at first by the clandestine supply of arms and other aid to my revolted subjects in North America, and afterwards by openly avowing their support and entering into formal arrangements with the leaders of the rebellion, and at length, by committing open hostilities and depredations...., and by an actual invasion of my dominions in America and the West-Indies." He is taking, he announces, "proper and necessary means for disappointing the malignant designs of our enemies, and also for making general reprisals," but confesses that "it would have accorded me very great satisfaction to have informed you that the conciliatory measures....[had] brought the troubles in North-America to a happy conclusion." At the end of his address, George he calls for the support of Parliament for the necessary measures "adequate to the present emergency," which "cannot fail of making us safe at home and respected abroad."