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SCG-C.767.066
24-31 Aug 1767:22 (32/1666)
London, May 24. Advices of great importance are arrived
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, . . .
At Philadelphia a Play-House is built, and as much
frequented by the Quakers, as by those who have fewer
external marks of their religion. Cock-fighting, fox-
hunting, horse-racing, and every other expensive diversion,
are in great vogue in the colonies, yet the colonists
pretend they are not able to pay towards the support of
their government.
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