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SCG-C.770.013
4 Apr 1770:23 (1799 Supplement)
London. Extract of a letter from Lincoln, January 6.
At our masquerade ball on the 21st of last month, Capt. W---
-s, in the character of the times, attracted the notice of
every one; all parties were held up to public ridicule; the
whole of his figure was, from top to toe, original,
characteristic, and burlesque; on his head he wore a hat,
cap of liberty, and above, a weathercock almost as tall as
himself;
. . . [Description of other ridicules, including divorces,
gaming, Bute, Wilkes, law, Scots, No. 45, standing army]
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