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 06 LETTERS OF JOHN ANDREWS.

and thai they have en gag' d most of the piles that the wharfingers have laid up for a winter supply for the poor. I laid in my winter's Btock last week, which cosl me nearly twenty dollars more than formerly it used to.

her 2\st. In every respect, I find this town arc sufferers, as the Carpenters are not only coming from New York, hut a parcel! have already arriv'd from Portsmouth, New Hampshin — whereby our own workmen are starving, when they might have had a dollar a day for as long as they would work — and cither- come, and are bene- fitted by it. Such has in general been the -policy of this town. The Committee of ways and means have not as yet reallis'd the \ altte of two thousand pounds sterling from all the donations thai they have receiv'd

— which, you must be very sensible, /»'///, will go but a very little ways towards maintaining so numerous a body of men as are now out of employ by the operation of "port bill — more especially over a tedious winter.

October 22nd. Alter surviving a lit of apoplexy two days, at six o'clock this morning died that zealous advocate for American liberties, William Molineaux. If he was too rash, and drove matters to an imprudent pitch, it was owing to his natural temper; as when be was in business, he pursued it with the same impetuous zeal. His loss is not much regretted by the more prudent and judicious part of the community.

Octoh r 23rd. This day arriv'd the four transport ships from New York, with the 47th Regiment, &ca., on board. Where they intend to quarter 'em, I can't learn, as they have already taken up all the empty houses in town, which are hardly sufficient for the eight Regiments already here, who are still in camp.

October 24£/i. On Saturday evening a man was badly wounded by one of the guard at Charlestown ferry house. Complaint was made to the General, who immediately order'd the Guard to be reliev'd and taken into custody, and assur'd the friends of the sufferer that they should have satisfaction, by a fair tryal, this day.

October 25th. By a vessel jusl arriv'd from Bristol, we have accounts rather more favorable than heretofore, as they now begin to view the Port Bill in its true light, and have opened subscriptions, both in London and Bristol, for the relief of this town. Am told that one Alderman in the former city put down five hundred pounds sterling

— which circumstance has serv'd, in a great measure, to compose the minds of the people here, as one third of the inhabitants, by reason

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