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BEP(F.750.047
10 Dec 1750:12 (800)
From the Gentleman's Magazine for September, 1750.
Hanover, Aug. 1. 1750. It is a pleasure to live among
people, who are all in the interest of Hanover: for here are
no Jacobites. We love ourselves, have no foreign interest,
and never think of London. Our **** is in good health, and
is able to eat very heartily of the herrings the Dutch
caught on our coast. He enjoys all the pleasures of life,
and can see the French play acted every night, and not an
English man in the house. Some of the spectators, to be
sure, were born in England; but I judge of a man's country
by his actions; and as for the great S----y, it is past
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 ? I hope we may; and wear a
yellow sash too upon occasion. Our ****, or **** as you
call him in English, does very little to vex us; for he
loves the people here in his heart, and it is no wonder; for
does not every **** love his natural subjects ? just as a
father loves his own children ? But we don't care so much
for other people's children as they will, or kiss the rod
ever so often. I write this letter from a b--y house, for
all the houses here are b--y houses; so you need not wonder
they are encouraged in London. You talk of taxes in
England; why there is no nation under the sun has more taxes
than we have; what taxes have you ? Haven't we all your
taxes ? but you must be angry if I joke; I cannot help
laughing at you, all foreigners laugh at you. I'll swear it
is mighty pleasant, to think that you cannot bear the taxes,
and that they make us happy. What is the reason you do not
make (what you call) a union between H--- and E---? I no
more know why you don't like us, than 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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