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VGW(HU.769.054
11 May 1769:31 (938 Supplement)
Extract of a letter from a gentleman in Rossshire, to his
friend in Edinburgh, March 10. . . [7 lines, awaiting House
of Peers' decision on Douglas case, post came with news:]
Bonefires were not only on every eminence, but at every
gentleman's door, and the virtuous hearts of the farmers
followed the laudable example, dancing round their fires to
the musick of fiddles and pipes, and hundreds who have
scarce a sentence of English scented, either from tradition
or intuition, to have a perfect veneration for The Douglas,
. . . [4 lines]
Let hoary age and lisping infants tell
That British peers have quash'd the French Touruelle;
No threatning monitaire shall there appear,
To blast the names which truth did fame hold dear
. . . [2 more lines]
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