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King George III Proclamation – Colonies are in Rebellion

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[George III] - The London Gazette, England  dated Dec 14, 1779, 11 ½” x 8”  with two front page Proclamations by King George III stating that the American Colonies are in a state of "...unnatural rebellion..." against the British mother country in North America!

The London Gazette is the oldest surviving English newspaper and the oldest continuously published newspaper in the United Kingdom, having been first published on 7 November 1665.   The London Gazette was first published as the Oxford Gazette on 7 November 1665. Charles II and the Royal Court had moved to Oxford to escape the Great Plague of London, and courtiers were unwilling to touch, let alone read, London newspapers for fear of contagion. The Gazette was "Published by Authority" by Henry Muddiman, and its first publication is noted by Samuel Pepys in his diary. The King returned to London as the plague dissipated, and the Gazette moved too, with the first issue of the London Gazette (labeled No. 24) being published on 5 February 1666. Her Majesty's Stationery Office took over the publication of the Gazette in 1889.  In time of war, dispatches from the various conflicts are published in the London Gazette. People referred to are said to have been mentioned in dispatches. When members of the armed forces are promoted, and these promotions are published here, the person is said to have been “gazetted”.

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George III - Autograph letter signed framed 27” x 28”, dated September 2, 1786 to an unnamed friend.  Letter discusses the design of the Theological Pivre Medal, the health of Elizabeth (his daughter), and his friend’s horseback riding:

My Good Lord, Yesterday I received from Burch his design for the Reverse of the Theological Pivre Medal, think, I now communicate to you this only Alterations I have proposed is that the Anfs shall not appear so well finished but of ruder workmanship and the name of the University as well as the year placed at bottom as on the other Medal.

We have had some alarm from a spasmatick attack on the breast of Elizabeth which occasioned some inflammation but by the skill of Sir George Baker She is now just fully recovered and in a few days will resume riding on horseback which has certainly this Summer agreed with her.

I am sure to find by a letter Mr. Delany has had from Mr. Montagu that you are preparing to do the same as I am certain it will contribute to Your Health, which I flatter myself is improved by your proposing to attempt it this Season.  Believe me even   My Good Lord, Your Most Affectionately, George R  Windsor Sept 2, 1786.

George III was born in 1738, son of Frederick, Prince of Wales and Augusta. He married Charlotte of Mecklinburg-Strelitz in 1761 and produced fifteen children.  George was diagnosed with porphyria, a mental disease which disrupted his reign as early as 1765.  

George III succeeded his grandfather, George II, in 1760; his father Frederick, Prince of Wales, had died in 1751 having never ruled.  George's plan of taxing the American colonies to pay for military protection for Britain led to the Revolutionary War in 1775. The colonists proclaimed independence in 1776, but George continued the war until the American victory at Yorktown in 1781. The Peace of Versailles, signed in 1783, ensured British acknowledgment of the United States of America. George’s political power decreased when William Pitt the Younger became Prime Minister in 1783. George reclaimed some of his power, driving Pitt from office from 1801-04, but his condition worsened again and he ceased to rule in 1811.  Personal rule was given to his son George, the Prince Regent. George III died blind, deaf and mentally ill at Windsor Castle in 1820.

Queen Sophie Charlotte



Wife of King George III

“An Address to the People of Great Britain”

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[General Congress to the People of Great Britain – Queen Charlotte] - The London Chronicle dated Saturday, December 17th to Tuesday, December 20, 1774, Newspaper: London , 8pp., 11 ½ ” x 16 ½ ”  printed in triple columns.  This small folio newspaper has a contemporary London newspaper printing of the Philadelphia, Sept. 5, 1774 ““A Letter from the General Congress to the People of Great Britain.”  The letter’s grievances and points were dismissed by King, Queen and Parliament as unacceptable and rebellious:

"Now mark the progression of the ministerial plan for enslaving us. Well aware that such hardy attempts to take our property from us, to deprive us of that valuable right of trial by jury, to seize our persons and carry us for trial to Great Britain, to blockade our ports, to destroy our charters, and change our forms of government” [i]

Queen Charlotte wrote her brother on July 3, 1775:

“Nothing is happening worth your attention, thanks to the Americans who furnish the news while Europe is quiet. In that part of America things are not going well, but the arrival of the Generals Howe, Bourgoyne and Clinton in Boston could well change the affairs in favor of the government, if not, in less than a week everything should be decided, and I believe you will soon have some enlightened information in Germany, but in the meantime you should not talk about it, I implore you.”

A year later the Colonies still remained “in rebellion”, and declared and their Independence from Great Britain and the crown.   

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Sophia, Charlotte - A Revolutionary War dated autograph letter signed by Queen Charlotte to her brother written in French on the 19^th of February 1779, framed 34 x 17, translated in full:

“Sir my brother. It is with great pleasure that I congratulate Your Majesty on the Birth of the Princess, that Riene your very lovely wife comes by the assistance of Divine Providence to put the World, and I share with Your Majesty the joy that this event causes you begging the Quite Powerful that it of a agene from days to days to fill the royal house with all kinds of Benedictions.  With my perfect sincerities.  Sir my brother, Your good sister, Charlotte. At St. James, 19^th February 1779.” 

Charlotte Sophia of Mecklenburg-Strelitz Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, the wife of George III. She married George shortly after his accession to the throne, in 1761. When George III first received his young bride on September 9, 1761, at the garden gate of St James's Palace, he was supposedly taken aback by her lack of beauty. It became evident, though, that the pious and modest Strelitz princess soon conquered his heart and willingly submitted to his strong influence over her.

In the first twenty-one years of her marriage Queen Charlotte gave birth to fifteen children, nine sons and six daughters. Their eldest son was the future George IV, born in 1762.  In contrast to most European Royal houses George III and Charlotte had a harmonious marriage. Charlotte played a prominent, though reticent, role on the stage of European world history. As Queen of England and consort of George III she became an eyewitness of a turbulent age. 

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