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MG-A(G.771.058
19 Dec 1771:6281,6282 (1371)
[Article responding to prior article on clubs being formed.
Article had derided a particular club for their drinking and
carousing]
From what information does Philomenous take this to be a
society, instituted for the noble purposes of getting drunk;
or that it is a rule, when "flushed with wine, to sally
forth at a seasonable hour, preceded by minstrelsy?" He
surely intends by this to ascribe to the independent club
the buckish exploit of a company of jovial fellows, senators
and others, who lately patrolled the streets at midnight
with a Drum and Fiddle, to the disturbance of all the sober
part of the inhabitants.
. . . [Article continues for 1 column.]
[signed] Philalethes.
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