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CG-NH.767.004
28 Feb 1767:22 (551)
Rare news for old England! If the information be true, our
great folks are going immediately to reform themselves for
the benefit of the poor, and the thousands who are at this
very time almost perishing for want in the different parts
of the Kingdom.
The nobility and gentry, wisely and humanely considering
in what luxury they live; how foolishly they idle away their
time; how indiscreetly they encourage idleness and
debauchery; what sums of money they expend on mistresses,
dogs and horses. . . [9 more lines listing examples of
wastefulness and describing anticipated attempts at revising
said lifestyle] They have agreed among themselves to be
fully satisfied with the diversions of the play-house, and
do not intend going to any operas, assemblies, concerts, or
other expensive entertainments during the whole winter.
They are greatly concerned that an Italian singer should be
paid fifty pounds a night, when one hundred pounds a week
would comfortably support two honest, industrious
Englishmen. . . [8 more lines listing similar resolutions]
It is also resolved to discard all foreigners from the
service of our truly English nobility and gentry. French
valets, fiddlers, cooks, ladies French women, friseurs, &c.
will be directly shipp'd off for West-Florida. . . [14 more
lines describing similar resolutions] [signed] Erasmus
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