Livingston, John and Joshua Hett Smith -- the latter so conspicuous, subsequently, in the interviews between General Arnold and Major Andre and in the evident exposure of the latter to arrest -- and a number of others, their confe lerates if not their tools, were assembled on Hanover-square, on which the Bookstore and Printing-office of James Riviugton were situated, apparently and nominally for military exercises, but really for the purpose of covering and protecting the approaching banditti, in its proposed work of devastation and robbery.'^

The column appears to have moved from Eastchester, by way of Kingsbridge and the old Boston post-road, through what are, now, the Central Park and Madison-s(iuare and Broadway and the Bowery and Chatham-square and Chatham-street, to what is, now. Pearl-street -- then known as Queen-street' -- which was the direct route to Hanover-square, the objective point of its march. With its escort of local symitathizers, its progress was not obstructed; and, on Thursday, the twenty-third of November, at noon, when it reached the Square, it " drew up, in close "order, before the printing-office of the infamous " James Rivington," * those who had already assembled there, evidently for the purpose of covering it, if not for the purpose of doing more than that, should any opposition to its i)urposes be manifested by any one welcoming it, as their auxiliaries and confederates.

It is said that, while the main body of the banditti remained in position, in front of the Bookstore and Printing-office of the proscribed Englishman, "a "small detachment " entered the latter, and gathered " the principal part of his types," which was placed in sacks prepared for the purpose, destroying those