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From Mfi\ Weekly Journal, Jan 5

... concur with my Poll tion, The Ma- jority is always in thr F. : olt, en this Foundation it has beenfoofien fiid by the Righteous Whigs, Our Sovereign Lord the People! And tho' our Kings have fometimes vouchafed to declare, that they fite on the Throne of their ...

Published: Tue 16 Jan 1728
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1120 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Wye's. Letter,verbatim, London, April 1 3

... i - Thh Week came on the E- ?? of Common council men of this City, when a very ftvenuous Opposition was made, wherein the Whigs loft the Majority, wnich they have , ; ad for feveral Years paft : Whereupon great Rejoi- cing were made by the oppoftte Party ...

Published: Tue 23 Apr 1728
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 645 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

From Miffs Weekly Journal, April 20

... Seamens Arrears are- to be paid off, and further Encouragement gi- ven, by adding ioo or 200 more to Greenwich H lt P feems*tie Whigs at Norwich have, by their tvranizinff v way of proceeding, forfeited the E- fteem of and loft that Majority they bad found ...

Published: Thu 25 Apr 1728
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 292 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Dublin

... 28, after the greateft Struggle that has been known, the Election continuing till about 11 a-ciock at Night : So that the Whigs daily lofe themfelves. ...

Published: Tue 14 May 1728
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 299 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

From M'iVs Weekly Journal, May 25*

... buftibles, being fe. on fire, endeavoured to torce his way into the E- India Honfe*, but was ?? back with great Difficulty. Ihe Whigs of the Ci- ty will have this to be a Plot of a d-i'ge-ou. Na- ture *, but whether it was or not, we are affured from good' ...

Published: Thu 30 May 1728
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 231 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Wie's Letter, verbatim, London, June 25

... on of which, we think* fhould have that Weight, as to remove all Doubts and Fears concerning the Event of the laid Br Vhe Whigs, we hear, are very much furprized at the Proceedings ofthe oppofite^PartP, in put- ting up Alderman Levet for one of the Sheriffs; ...

Published: Mon 01 Jul 1728
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1114 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Wye's Letter, verbatim, London, July 15

... Nets and fifh where they pleafed under his Bri tannic k Majefty's Jurifdi&ion. We hear there will fuddenlybe a Meeting ofthe Whig Aldermen to confider ot the Affair relating to the Election of a Lord Mayor at Michaelmafs next, it being apprehended that ...

Published: Mon 22 Jul 1728
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 680 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Wyt's Letter, verbatim, London, July 18

... Meet- ing- There was laft Night the Meeting which I late- ly hinted, of a great Number of Livreymen atthe Crown Tavern, (of the Whig Party, where feve- ral Aldermen were prefenO who fignified, That as there was a Defign to fet afide the old Cuftom of choofing ...

Published: Tue 23 Jul 1728
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 709 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Fromthe London Evenivg Pofl, Aug 3 1

... enfuing Year, when after agreat Struggle, and no fmall Influ- ence, Alderman Spurrel was elected by a Majority of 90 ; fo the Whigs have now carried their Point, Cho' at a vaft Expence. ...

Published: Mon 09 Sep 1728
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 583 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Wye's Letter, verbatim, Lor.den, Sept. 5. !

... bert Baillies for Lord Mayor of this City he being next the Chair ; but notwithftanding, there was a Meeting this Day of the Whig Aldermen and Live- rymen, where Sir Gilbert Heathcote, after recom- mending the faid Sir P_obert BaiDies to thc-ir Choice, ...

Published: Tue 10 Sep 1728
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 678 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Wye's Letter, verbatim, London, Otl. 2p

... Comptroller in the new Licence-of-icc:, his Execu- tor, and an Eftate of 1 2000 1. for having writ the paper call'd the Independent Whig. ThisGentle- mai was likewife Author of Cato's Letters iv the London Journal, in Oppofition to the Management of tbe S- S. ...

Published: Mon 04 Nov 1728
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 741 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

-ifye s Letter, verbatim, Lvrcicr,. Nov. 14

... received 70CO L ci theEffeftsofDr. Welfh decea fed, which he lefe hini by Will, for having been the Author of Ths Independent Whig. Mr. Juftice Cooper is foill at the Bath, that his Life is difpaired of. Mr. Edwards by his Council, moved Yefterday the Conrt ...

Published: Tue 19 Nov 1728
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 698 | Page: 3 | Tags: none