Yesterday evening, arrived, ship Chalkley, Captain Spain, from Bristol,
who brought account that his Majesty had received the petition of our American
Congress, and promised to lay it before the Parliament, who were to meet, by
adjournment, the nineteenth of January. In the interim, petitions are preparing
by the body of merchants in London, Bristol, and all over England. This news
causes our Tories to be quite jaw-fallen and sullen.
SOURCE: William Duane, Editor, Passages from the Diary of
Christopher Marshall, Kept in Philadelphia and Lancaster during the
American Revolution, Vol. 1, 1774-1777, p. 15-6
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