[American Revolution]:

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THE PENNSYLVANIA EVENING POST...TUESDAY, JUNE 4, 1776.... The June 4, 1776, issue of the Pennsylvania Evening Post. Published a month before the adoption of the Declaration of Independence, its contents include, most notably, the text of the lord mayor of London's March 22 address to King George III, calling for a peaceful reconciliation between Great Britain and the North American colonies. Most of the first page is given to reprinting this address, in which the lord mayor, aldermen, and common council of London anticipate with regret the "dismemberment of the empire," together with the "effusion of the blood of our countrymen and brethren...which must follow a civil war," before calling on the king to extend his "justice and mercy towards that continent." Reprinted just below is the text of the king's response: "I deplore, with the deepest concern, the miseries which a great part of my subjects in North-America have brought upon themselves, by an unjustifiable resistance to the constitutional authority of this kingdom, and I shall be ready and happy to alleviate those miseries, by acts of mercy and clemency, whenever that authority is established, and the now existing rebellion is at an end." The present issue also prints the text of a June 3 memorial from the Committee of Inspection and Observation for the City and Liberties of Philadelphia, addressing the judges for the county of Philadelphia, and calling on them to suspend proceedings of the courts "until a new governmen

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