The Virginia Gazette

There is a Piece of News from Spain from very good Hands, that his Catholick Majesty begins to grow tir'd of the Musick of Farinelli's Pipe, occasion'd by a Nightingale being presented to him which cost a Pistole, and which he thinks has the best Voice of the two; from whence our Politicians have formed Hopes that Farinelli may be restored to this Nation again.---Let the Spaniards take our Ships, let them drive us out of our Colonies, nay, let them cut off our Ears, if they return us Farinelli. Ask all the affected Ladies about Court, ask our new promoted Heroes that behave so valiantly at a Review, what is the Ruin of a Thousand Merchants, what the Interest of a dirty Nation, in Comparison of a Song?