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PP-P.782.010
17 Jan 1782:21, 22 (11/834)
Since war is unavoidable, it is certainly a great blessing
that custom and civilization are permitted to soften its
rigor and abridge its severities. . . [1 column satirical
essay on the appearance of the satire on The Temple of
Minerva in Rivington's Royal Gazette, and the difficulty of
obtaining a copy in Philadelphia]
I had a servant, a British serjeant, [ ] the Commissary
of Prisoners lent me, on parole. I ordered him to take the
Royal Gazette into the cellar, and carefully copy all the
wit upon a clean sheet of paper. He did so, and here it is.
(*** The printer hopes the author will excuse him for not
inserting the extract from the New-York paper alluded to.
It is a parody on a late entertainment, called The Temple of
Minerva; but the extreme surrility and indecency of the
performance, renders the publication improper any where,
except in the Royal Gazette of New-York.)
You wish to know what became of the Royal Gazette -- The
serjeant threw it into the river. . . [12 lines, signed] A.
B.
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