Printed handbill headed 'Plymouth Town Council', reprinting a 'spirited and luminous Letter' by 'A Burgess', 'on the management of the Municipal Affairs of this Town', previously published in the 'West of England Conservative'.

Printed in two columns on one side of a 45 x 28 cm piece of wove paper. Text complete, on aged and creased paper with wear to extremities. Docketed on reverse in a contemporary hand, and with four minor manuscript emendations. The heading reads: 'PLYMOUTH | TOWN COUNCIL. | The following spirited and luminous Lettere on the management of the Municipal Affairs of this Town having appeared in the Conservative Paper of Wednesday last, several of the Burgesses have it re-printed for the general information of the Rate-Payers: -'. The letter, addressed 'To the Editor of the West of England Conservative', is signed in type 'A BURGESS. | Plymouth, 30th April, 1838.' At the foot of the page, above the slug: 'The Watch Committee have recommended a further increase of expenditure on the Police account, which is intended to be brought before the Council on Wednesday the 9th instant. Burgesses! look to yourselves; and attend on that day.' BBTI has John and Henry Haycock Heydon active in Plymouth around this time. No copy traced, either on OCLC WorldCat or on COPAC.