The Best and Worst of Britain
A Portuguese merchant assesses Great Britain’s market under the Hanoverians.
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Manoel Gonzales
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A Portuguese merchant, so he tells us; but some suspect that he was the creation of a satirical Englishman, perhaps Daniel Defoe.
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