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NHG-P.766.016
1 May 1766:21,22 (500)
Extract of a letter from a Merchant in London, to his Friend
in Boston, March 4, 1766.
Inclosed is a piece I cut out of the Public Advertiser, and
I think very well wrote in the droll way, and very true
every tittle of it:
. . . [22 lines of the letter, about a mock trial concerning
the Stamp Act, addressed to the Printer of the Public
Advertiser, 44 more lines]
In this cause the great financier exhausted all his
eloquence: It was curious to behold him and his coadjutor,
like
----the learned Glyn and Maynard,
To make good subjects traitors, strain hard.
The examination of the witnesses was a true scene, and
comic: The questions were put with all the sagacity and
quaintness of a petty fogging attorney, who like Hudlbras's
council,
----had told the clock
For many years at Bridewell dock,
At Westminster and Hick's Hall,
And Hiccius Doccius play'd in all.
. . . [24 more lines]
Before I conclude, let me pray you, Mr. Woodfall, to offer
my kind compliments to your faithful correspondent,
Anti-Sejanus. I wish him a good journey to Bath, and hope
his waters will pass easy. I wish he could prevail on some
of his great friends to accompany him; they would dance more
at their ease in the Long Room than on the D--e's
tomb-stone.
. . . [4 more lines]
I am, Sir, Your humble Srvant, Thersites. New-Bondstreet,
Feb. 26.
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