New-Castle upon Delaware, May 28. 1724. This being the anniversary of His Majesty's birth-day, Sir William Keith, Baronet, our governeur, came to the court-house, attended with the principal inhabitants of the place, and after having caused the King's Charter to be publish'd for erecting the same into a body corporate and politick, with many valuable privileges, by the name of the city of Newcastle; he made the following speech to the corporation.

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[1724]