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A Fifth Letter to the People of England on the subversion of the constitution: and the necessity of it's being restored
175723896London: Printed for J. Morgan 1757. Octavo. 7 3/4 x 4 5/8 inches. 4 99 1pp. Half-title errata on verso 1p. publisher's advertisements at back. Blindstamp to title H1 and H2 library number stamp at the foot of the verso of the title and at foot of p. 48. 20th-century half calf over marbled paper-covered boards joints rubbed.<br/> <br/>First edition of the fifth in a series by Tory political satirist and pamphleteer John Shebbeare.<br/> <br/>Here Shebbeare attacks the ministry of the Duke of Newcastle and the unfair influence exercised by George III's Hanoverian interests on policy. There are also references to Admiral Byng and problems in North America with the French. The first five letters were published between 1755 and 1757 and together they constituted a bold attack on the government and its handling of home and international affairs. Near the end of 1757 after Pitt's dismissal Shebbeare published his Sixth Letter and finally went too far: in the following year he was tried for libel fined pilloried and imprisoned and his final Seventh letter London: 1758 was seized and suppressed.<br/> <br/>Kress 5647; Sabin 80044; ESTC 35524. Printed for J. Morgan unknown books
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