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

' Mhmlef o f the General Commillee of the City and County o f Vew York, Tliursday, November il, 1776; JoDes s Ui»Utry of New York during the Heroltitionarij War, i., 66 ; Oovertior Trijon to the Earl of Dartmouth, No. 22, Ox BoAKb THE Ship Dutchess of Gordon New York Harbour, 6"" Dec 1775 ; etc.

-Jones's Historif of \eir York during the lievolutionary War, i., 66.

* Manual of the Corporation of the City of .Yeir- York for ISo."), 511.

<"The main IkxIv, consisting of Iri, then proceeded to New- York, " which they entered at noon-day on horseback, with bayonets fixed, and "in the greatest regularity, went down the main street, and drew up in " cloee order before the printing-office of the infamous James Riving- "ton." {The Connecticwl Jonnial, No. 424, [New Have.n,] Wednesday, November 29, 1775.)