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NHG-P.767.059
24 Jul 1767:21 (564)
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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