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From Wh. Ev. Post.---Portsmouth, August 6. ‘Admiral Byng being got as far as Hilsley-Green near Ports Bridge, was order’d back, which was thought a very prudent Step, as a vast Number of the Populace were assembled in different Gangs, extending as far as Petersfield; (which is eighteen Miles) and would have increased from thence to London: Had he come forward, God only knows what the Consequence might have been, for never were People of all Denominations, in the Remembrance of the oldest Man living, so much incensed as at present. The Loss of Minorca is such a Slur, such an Indignity to the British Nation, as cannot be done away. The People, one and all, are in the utmost Sorrow and Confusion when the Names of St. Philip’s and Blakeney are mention’d.’
From Ev. Adv. Above a thousand Persons, prepared with Pitchforks, Clubs, &c. were assembled in one Place upon the Portsmouth Road, in Hopes of paying their Respects to Admiral Byng. It is thought five Times the Number of Horse, which were only Sixty of the Blues, would not have been sufficient to have seen him safe in the Tower.
— Ipswich Journal, Saturday 14 August, 1756 source
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Portsmouth, Aug. 6. Yesterday Morning about half an Hour past Three Admiral Bing set out, with the Troop of Horse, for London, and when he had got as far as Hillsey-green, near Port-bridge, was order’d by a Messenger, to return hither again, and he went on board the Royal Anne without any Molestation; which was thought a prudent Step, as a vast Number of the Populace were assembled in different Gangs, prepared with Pitchforks, Clubs, &c. extending as far as Petersfield, (which is 18 Miles) and would have increased from thence to London.
— Newcastle Courant, Saturday 14 August, 1756 source