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400 Style in 1753. Truth and Common Sense meet in St. Paul's on the 2nd of September, the day set apart as a fast to call to remembrance the Fire of London in 1666. Tis strange," says Truth, "that Common Sense should not reflect upon the notorious absurdity of addressing our prayers in solemn commemoration of an event, as happening on this day: whereas the proper anniversary appointed by authority is yet to come eleven days hence, and will then be passed over here without any notice." Truth further argues, "how absurd it is, to celebrate this and the other three anniversaries of the Martyrdom, the Restoration, and the Gunpowder Treason (which are all four solemnities peculiar to this nation) on the nominal days instead of the real ones." Common Sense is at last convinced, that the people are deceived by Almanacks and Calenders.