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VGW(HU.751.002
17 Jan 1751:12, 21 (3)
From the Craftsman, . . . extract of a letter from Hanover.
Hanover, Aug. 1, 1750
Sir, It is a pleasure to live among people, who are all in
the interest of Hanover: For here there are no Jacobites,
have no foreign interest, and never think of London. Our
**** is in very good health, and is able to eat very
heartily of the pleasures of life, and can see the French
play acted every night, and not an Englishman in the house.
Some of the spectators, to be sure, were born in England;
but I judge of man's country by his actions; and as for the
great S--y, it is [ ] doubt he has been naturalized an
Hanoverian. But to return to the Play house; if there was a
war in the theatre here concerning the strollers, who would
care for that? we can draw our swords here, can't we [ ]
hope, we may; and wear a yellow sash too upon occasion. . .
[13 lines commenting on taxes] I no more know why you don't
like us, that why you turn'd out the French strollers: What
harm have they done: What harm have we done? Neither they
nor we are Jacobites: The French nation broke their faith
with the Prince of the Jacobites: And we cannot love him to
be sure; for he told the ladies in your country, "He would
make Scotland his H--, and Edinburgh his H---, Yours, &c.
W. de Turnup
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