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PJ.746.013
30 Dec 1746:11 (215)
Extract of a letter from the Hague, Sept. 30th. Some
persons who lately came from Paris given the following
account of affairs there, viz. That trade is entirely
ruined: that want and misery manifest themselves every
where; and that had it not been for the news often arriving
of victories being gained, of cities and strong places being
taken, of the death of his Catholick majesty, and of that of
the Dauphness, and consequently for the frequent singing of
Te Deum, for the playing off of fireworks, erecting
magnificent canopies, singing masses of requiem, and
procuring funeral orations, which have amused idle people,
and taken off their attention from their real necessities,
they must, upon viewing their miserable circumstances, have
been thrown into a deep dejection, and will many of them be
soon in want of even bread . . .
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