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The Virginia Gazette
Richmond, Williamsburg, Richmond County, Virginia
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Extract from Voltaire's 1772 letter to Lord Chesterfield criticizing Britain's folly and predicting America as an asylum for the industrious, alongside another writer's commentary on England's declining constitution due to luxury and colonial wealth.
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A great writer, speaking of England, says: "Your spot has passed its meridian; luxury has taken root; the unexpected wealth got from the poor of a distant country by robbery has changed the bulwark of the English constitution, your House of Commons."
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Britain
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1772
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Extract of a letter from Voltaire to the late Lord Chesterfield, written in 1772, expressing sentiments on British and American world: 'In the midst of your nation's folly and blindness, I can see a new world opening that will prove an asylum for all your honest industrious people; and I think a few years will discover the island of Britain to have for its inhabitants only two sorts of animals, tyrants and slaves.' Another great writer on England: 'Your spot has passed its meridian; luxury has taken root; the unexpected wealth got from the poor of a distant country by robbery has changed the bulwark of the English constitution, your House of Commons.'