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Newpaper Clippings: Fashionable Winter Articles


From ARIS'S BIRMINGHAM GAZETTE, 7 November 1791













SCANDAL: Well worth a read is this tale of 'a most handsome, athletic' young con-artist called Griffin, a run-away gentleman's daughter and a shooting. Griffin and the young lady had arrived at the Hotel in Birmingham, but it was soon discovered that she was not his sister after all.