4 pp. 39.2x25 (15½x10”), silked.
A representative issue of this newspaper, with news from the House of Commons, including a lengthy article on Edmund Burke's speech against Sir George Rodney's capture of Dutch-held St. Eustatius in 1781, which also discusses the expulsion of the Jews on that island. Also, a letter from John Adams, as Minister to the Netherlands, discussing treaty negotiations with the Dutch. The Independent Ledger... was established June 15, 1778 by Edward Draper and John W. Folsom; it was published until Oct. 16, 1786.