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NYGWPB.751.001b
7 Jan 1751:21 (416)
From the Gentleman's Magazine for September, 1750. Hanover,
August 1, 1750. Sir,
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 a 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 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 our strollers, who would
care for that? we can draw our swords here, can't we?. . . I
no more know why you don't like us, than why you turn'd out
the French strollers: What harm have they done?
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