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Oran Rising to a Banker's Life and a Jockey’s Wager
A critique of Oran’s vanity and folly driven by wealth. He chases luxury, incurs debt, and is duped by flatterers who drain his funds. Meanwhile a reader proposes starch tax reforms, and a tribute poem praises Garrick amid public satire.
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Ran
Oran
Oraz
Oyaz
Tantalus
Admiralty
John Jarvis
Dartmouth
Weymouth
Betsy
Chace
Dieppe
Philip Clever Dubuiffon
Hunter
Miller
Dublin
Cadiz
Cape de Gatt
Hungerford
Walker
Leghorn
Gibraltar
Pembroke
Smith
South Carolina
Poole
St. Malé’s
Molly