“This- this- is liberty! genuine British liberty!- This instant about two thousand liberty boys are swearing and swaggering by with large sticks”

(from vol 2, letter 67: 6 Jun 1780, to J___ S___ esq).

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British composer, writer and grocer 1729–1780

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