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BNL.767.058
23 Jul 1767:21 (3329)
London. . . May 14. . . Advices of great importance are
arrived from North-America. They are said to be very
disagreeable in their tendency. The colonists plead their
poverty, with what truth we may judge from private letters
received from those parts, some of which give us to
understand, that the number of carriages kept in New-York
has, in about four years, encreased from five to 70. --Some
houses are let there for 200L per annum. At Philadelphia a
play-house is built, and as much frequented by the Quakers,
as by those who have fewer external marks of religion. Cock
fighting, fox-hunting, horse-racing, and every other
expensive diversion, are in great vogue in the Colonies, yet
the Colonists pretend they are not able to pay towards the
support of their government.
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