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CG-NL.767.032
31 Jul 1767:21 (194)
London, May 18. Advices of great importance are arriving
from North America. They are said to be very disagreeable
in their tendency. The colonists plead their poverty, with
what truth we may judge from private letters received from
those parts, some of which gives us to understand, that the
number of carriages kept in New-York has, in about four
years encreased from five to 70.-- Some houses are let there
for 200l. per annum. At Philadelphia a play-house is built,
and as much frequented by the quakers, as by those who have
fewer external marks of religion. Cock fighting, fox
hunting, horse racing, and every other expensive diversion,
are in great vogue, in the colonies, yet the colonies
pretend they are not able to pay towards the support of
their government.
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