Citation - Providence Gazette: 1771.06.29

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Index Entry Balls, in Calcutta, essay, ought to be curtailed in bad times, but have not 
Location Bengal 
Citation
PGCJ.771.027
29 Jun 1771:13 (390)
London, April 3. . . 
Extract of a letter from an officer at Bengal, dated
Calcutta, September 4.  
Balls, concerts, and all public entertainments, ought to
subside at this time of general scarcity; but I am sorry to
say they have not; and under the doors and windows of these
places of amusement, lie many dead bodies, and other again
in all the agonies of death, despair and want.  But let me
quit this melancholy subject. . .


Generic Title Providence Gazette 
Date 1771.06.29 
Publisher Carter, John 
City, State Providence, RI 
Year 1771 
Bibliography B0041981
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