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THE GLOCESTER JOURNAL, England (now spelled Gloucester), May 30, 1768
- Commodore John Byron
- HMS Dolphin 2nd World voyage
- Commander Samuel Wallis
Various British news reports throughout, with its finest feature being the handsome masthead with two detailed engravings and the ornate lettering.
Pages 2 and 3 have a great account of the second voyage of the HMS Dolphin, taken from a letter headed: "Extract of a Letter from on Board his majesty's Ship the Dolphin, Newly Arrived from a Second Voyage
SUPPLEMENT TO THE BOSTON CHRONICLE, May 16, 1768 The front page is taken up with a wide variety of news reports from London including one item noting: "...the colony agents have orders...to obtain an act of Parliament for the encouragement of the linen manufactury in North America...". An inside page has reports from "Boston" including: "...considering them too as part of the British Empire, and as such, subject to the supreme legislative control of parliament; but since the Americans had
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