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NYG(B.732.012
4-11 Dec 1732:21,22 (372)
The Boston Gazette of the 20th November last furnishes the
readers of it with a very heavy dissertation upon the
malignity, and dangerous consequences of a chearful heart,
and a polite behaviour; a discourse calculated (as it would
seem) for that meridian only, but in truth publish'd with a
more general and worse natur'd view.
This essay, after a trifling and superfluous introduction
sets out with the most shocking foul language and ill
manners, an assembly of ladies and gentlemen, who are entred
into a confedracy to revive and restore in America the good
breeding of a country from whence they derive their
original, . . . [continues for a column and a half]
I am inform'd that this writer refuses to cast an eye
upon, or dignify the Assembly at Boston with his company,
his imagination carries all before it, and a very loose one
it must be which leads him to derive the worst consequences
from causes which never had a being. I know that his country
men leave their scruples behind them when in their journeys
hither they reach the west bank of the River Byram,
wherefore if he pleases to travel this way, I shall leave a
ticket for him at the house of Capt. John Lyon of Rye, in
order to introduce him to the assembly held every Tuesday
night at the house of Mr. Paul Richards near Fort-George in
New-York, there I promise my self he will (not withstanding
his present prejudices) become a convert and confess the
vast obligations which this place owes to these great
persons who condescended to introduce an entertainment as
new, as it is innocent, innoffensive, chearful, and
improving to us, and if he knew us before (as by his manner
it may be conjectured he did) he will ingeniously
acknowledge that influence which the example of a noble and
most accomplish'd family has upon the minds, as well as
behaviour of that company, which they highly honour with
their presence, he will observe that luxury and extravagance
have no part in this pleasing amusement, and that it is
instituted and conducted to serve only the most laudable
purposes.
On the 6th instant the new theatre in the buildings of the
honourable Rip Van Dam Esq. was opened, with the comedy
called 'The Recruiting Officer,' the part of Worthy acted by
the ingenious Mr. Thomas Head, Baiter and Perugue-maker to
his Honour.
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