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PG-P.746.041
30 Dec 1746:12,13 (942)
Extract of a letter from the Hague, Sept. 30. Some persons
who lately came from Paris, give the following account of
affairs there, viz. That trade is intirely ruined; that
want and misery manifest themselves every where; and that
had it not been for the news often arriving of victories
being gained, of cities and strong places being taken, of
the death of his Catholick majesty, and of that of the
Dauphiness, and consequently for the frequent singing of Te
Deum, for the playing off of fireworks, erecting magnificent
canopies, singing masses of requiem, and procuring funeral
orations, which have amused idle people, and taken off their
attention from their real necessities, they must, upon
viewing their miserable circumstances, have been thrown into
a deep dejection, and will many of them be soon in want of
even bread; . . .
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