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BC.769.132
9-13 Nov 1769:3672 (144)
[London] We are assured that masquerades will be again
established, with the consent of a great personage, in this
metropolis, on the important consideration of their great
benefit to trade, in various branches of manufacture and
commerce: but that public ones, as heretofore, where the
purchase of a ticket gave the lowest and most abandoned
character the privilege of consorting with the best and most
exalted, will not be allowed; nor any gaming permitted even
at the private ones, which are to be by subscription. Under
some regulations like these, there is no doubt by
masquerades can be rendered as innocent a diversion as any
in the whole round of elegant entertainment, and (considered
in a national right) indisputably the most beneficial of all
polite amusements.
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