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PGCJ.767.021
14 Mar 1767:21 (166)
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. .
. They have agreed among themselves to be fully satisfied
with the diversions of the play-house, and do not intend
going to any operas, assemblings, 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 hundred honest, industrial
Englishmen. . . 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 shipped off for West-
Florida, where they will be allowed each of them some
thousand acres of land.
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