It is said that three quarters of an hour were spent in that work of reckless destruction, without the slightest attempt by cither the Municipal or the Colonial authorities, legal or revolutionary, to interfere, for the preservation of the peace or for the protection of the property of the citizen or for that of the freedom of the Press ; and, consequently, after its appetite for outrage had become satisfied, taking with it the type which it had not destroyed and such articles from the Bookstore as were fancied by those who entered it,® the banditti mounted its horses, its music striking up the tune of Yankee Doodle, and its local sympathizers in the Square and around the head of the Coffee-house Slip giving it cheers which were returned, and left the City by the same route as that on which it had entered it.'

5 "A email detachment entered it," [the printing-office,] "and in about "three-quarters of an hour brought off the principal part of his types, " for which they offered to give an order on Lord Dunmoro " [who had previously stolen John Holt's type and prei's, at Sorfolk,] (The Connecticut Journal, No. 424, [New Haves,] Wednesday, November 29, 1775.)

They "entered his" [Hivington' s] "house, demolislied his printing "apparatus, destroyed a part and carried off the remainder of his "types." -- (Jones's History of Xew York during the Revolutionary War,

i. , 66.)

See, also, Governor Tryon to the Earl of Dartmouth, No. 22, " On " Board the Ship Dutchess of Gordon New York Harbour, 6"' Dec "1'775 ;" etc.