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==== Several features in your text are classic early-18th-century state framing: ====

===== - “From Miller’s Letter…” =====
* “Private Letters from France say…”
* “They write from Ghent…”
* “Letters from Liverpool say…”

This gives plausible deniability:

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It also mimics intelligence reporting, which gives it authority.

===== Notice the language discipline: =====
* “the Rebels” (never “Jacobites” or “the King’s adherents”)
* “the Pretender” (never James III / VIII)
* “unfortunate Gentlemen” only after they are securely imprisoned
* “consternation and terror” (psychological collapse is repeatedly asserted)

This is delegitimisation, not reporting.

===== Over and over we are told: =====
* Rebels abandoning towns
* Burning their own supplies
* Being surprised, fleeing, or intercepted
* Government forces always advancing, provisioning, organising

This is confidence management, aimed at:
* merchants,
* magistrates,
* militia officers,
* wavering gentry.

The message is:

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