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VGW(HU.770.008
8 Mar 1770:31 (981)
London, Dec. 15 . . . It is agreed, on all hands, that the
town was never so thin of people of rank and fashion at this
season of the year as at present. One very great proof of
it is the pit and boxes of the Opera exhibiting the picture
of a desert every night, and the assemblies at Mrs.
Cornely's and Almack's being deferred until after Christmas.
Many people seem to attribute the extraordinary absence of
the nobility and gentry from London, at this time, to the
late meeting of the ensuing session of Parliament; but we
believe the more weighty reason is that one party stays in
the country to raise or support the spirit of petitioning,
and the other to allay or vanquish it.
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