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NYGWPB.767.029
13 Aug 1767:23 (1284)
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, increased from five to seventy. --Some houses are
there let for 200 L. 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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