Lord George Gordon; Gordon Riots; newspaper; American Revolution; John Adams] The London Chronicle, vol. LIX, No.4596 from Tueday, May 2 [to] Thursday May 4, 1786

"Copy of a Letter from Lord George Gordon to the Marquis of Carmarthan, one of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, &c &c", Pages 17, 18, 23, 24 ONLY, sm. folio, signs of having been extracted from a volume (edge rough), aged but text clear and complete, docketed "Ld. Geo. Gordon to the Marquis of Carmarthen". He warns Carmarthen not to trust John Adams (as united States Ambassador). He "has his salary paid him quarterly by Comte d'Adhemar the French Ambassador". See Image. This issue of The London Chronicle (p.417] also has a Report from the House of Commons involving Warren Hastings and Edmund Burke: "The impeachment of Warren Hastings, the first governor-general of the Bengal Presidency in India, was attempted between 1787 and 1795 in the Parliament of Great Britain. Hastings was accused of misconduct during his time in Calcutta, particularly relating to mismanagement and personal corruption. The impeachment prosecution was led by Edmund Burke and became a wider debate about the role of the East India Company and the expanding empire in India. According to historian Mithi Mukherjee, the impeachment trial became the site of a debate between two radically opposed visions of empireone represented by Hastings, based on ideas of absolute power and conquest in pursuit of the exclusive national interests of the colonizer, versus one represented by Burke, of sovereignty based on a recognition of the rights of the colonized" [Wikipedia] See Image.…