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PP-L.778.005
25 Feb 1778:22
Worcester, January 22. In a late London paper was a
paragraph, informing the world, that a number of feather
beds, bottles of Lethe, spirits of hartshorn, and lavender,
&c. &c. were preparing to be sent to the British troops
serving America. Whether any, or all of these valuable
articles arrived, we have never yet learnt; but it is
shrewdly suspected, that Burgoyne's troops have by some
means or other, procured and taken large draughts of Lethe--
- for the commanders have taken to dancing, and the privates
to robbing and deserting; the former forgetting their men,
and the latter their officers; and the whole forgetting that
they are prisoners.
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