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The New Hampshire Gazette And Historical Chronicle
Portsmouth, Greenland, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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Extract of a letter from France depicts inconceivable misery: people ground by taxes without bread, parliaments destroyed and exiled, respectable men imprisoned in hovels, rulers testing limits of suffering, weak Dauphin preventing revolution amid hopelessness.
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"The misery of this kingdom is inconceivable. The face of the wretched people is ground with taxes, while they have not bread to eat. The Parliaments are destroyed and exiled. The most respectable men in France are torn from their connections, & immured in dungeons, or pent up in little cots and hovels, where there is hardly any necessary of life to be got for love or money.--- Our rulers seem willing to try how much nature will suffer. We not the Dauphin such a poor priest ridden simpleton, did not his weakness threaten us with greater calamities than those which we endure. I believe a revolution would ere now, have been attempted. But we are hopeless. Providence has abandoned us to distress and slavery."
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France
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ongoing distress, slavery, and hopelessness preventing revolution
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The kingdom suffers inconceivable misery with people burdened by taxes yet lacking bread; Parliaments destroyed and exiled; respectable men torn from connections and immured in dungeons or hovels without necessities; rulers testing limits of suffering; Dauphin described as a poor priest-ridden simpleton whose weakness threatens greater calamities; belief that revolution would have been attempted but for hopelessness and abandonment by Providence.