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and fifes to each company dress'd in white uniforms trim'd in y'. most elegant manner; with a company of Grenadiers in red with every other apparatus, that equal any regular Company I ever saw both in regard to appearance and discipline, having a grand band of musick consisting of eight that play nearly equal to that of the 64th. What crowns all is the Cadet company, being perfectly compleal and under the best order you can conceive of, with a band of musick likewise. that perform admirably well. "What with these and Paddock's com- pany of artillery make y'.' eoniplcatcst militia in America : not a drum- mer, lifer, am! scarcely a soldier but what are in compleat uniforms and thoroughly instructed in the military exercises. In addition to all this the Town House is fitted up in the most elegant manner, with the whole of the outside painted of a stone color, which gives it a fine appearance.

ml" r 29$. Hall and Bruce* arriv'd Saturday evening with each an hundred and odd chests of the detested Tea. \\' Iiat will be done with it, can't say : but I tremble for y'.' consequences should y . consignees still persist in their obstinacy and not consenl to reship it. They have softened down so tar as to olQfer it to the care of Coun- cil or the town, till such times as they hear from their friends in 1 land, hut am perswaded, from the present dispositions of y". people, that no other alternative will do, than to have it immediately sent hack to London again. . . . X. hells are ringing for a general muster, and a third vessel is now arriv'd in Nantaskel road. Handbills are stuck up, calling upon Friends! Citizens! ami Countrymen!

December 1st, Having just return'd from Fire Club, and am now, in company with the two Miss Masons and Mr. Williams of your place, at 8am. Eliot's, who has been dining with him at Coll Han- cock's, and acquaints me that Mr. Palfrey sets off Express for New York and Philadelphia at five o'clock tomorrow morning, to commu- nicate yl transactions of this town respecting the tea. ... 1 acquainted you that Bruce and Hall had arrived, which was a mistake, as only Hall has arriv'd; which has caus'd y'. most spirited and linn conduct to be observ'd that ever was known : the regularity ami particulars of

��* By Hall and Bruce, Mr. Andrews signifies vessel?, the commanders of which bore

i i;im«--. This was an idiom of these days: witness Defoe, in the Life of Captain

r xii.), — " We found the fellows were hearty in their resolution, and

jolly brisk sailors they were: so I told them I would do nothing without our admiral,

that was the captain of the other ship; so [sent my pinnace on board Captain Wilmot,

to desire him to come on board," &c.

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