_As it was running a Risque,
which few others have cared to do, it was therefore a more remarkable
Act of Humanity, in the Commander of the_ Rose, _to take so many
additional Mouths on Board, when he had only Provisions for his own
Company. This is such an Instance of a laudable Compassion, that it
is to be wished it may not be more admired than imitated on the like
Occasions.
_The Pennsylvania Gazette_, August 10, 1738
_Octuplets_
_Aug_. 5. We hear that the Wife of a Peasant in the District of
_Boisleduc_ was brought to Bed of eight Children, seven Girls and one
Boy, who were all living.
_The Pennsylvania Gazette_, November 24, 1738
_Obadiah Plainman Defends the Meaner Sort_
_To the Author of the Letter in the last_ Pennsylvania _Gazette._
_SIR,_
On my first hearing of the Outcry that was raised against the
Paragraph, that related to the shutting up of the Concert Room, _&c_.
I immediately called for the _Gazette_; but, tho' I read the Article
over and over with the greatest Attention, I was not able to discover
in it the least injurious Reflection on the Characters of the
Gentlemen concerned. My ill Success, I then attributed to my
Stupidity, and concluded that the Abuse, tho' I could not see it,
must nevertheless be very perspicuous to the BETTER SORT, otherwise,
they would not have made so loud a Complaint against it, as it is
publickly known they did, _since it was in the publick Street_.
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