Public Notices Concerning the Petition from the Continental Congress (II)
Printed in The Whitehall Evening Post, respectively January 19-21 and 14-17, 1775
Jan. 17, 1775.

A Copy of the Petition to the King, from the General Congress in America, having been published in a Pamphlet, printed for T. Becket, in the Strand; We, to whom the care of Presenting and Publishing that Petition was committed by the Congress, think it our duty to inform the Public, that the above-mentioned Copy is surreptitious as well as materially and grossly erroneous. The Agents have deferred making the Petition public, out of respect to the King and Parliament, his Majesty having declared his Intention of laying it before his two Houses of Parliament as soon as they meet.

William Bollan,
Benjamin Franklin,
Arthur Lee.
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