I shall pas.s over the many littk- embellishments with which the author's fancy has eudeavortd to decorate his narrative; nor, is it necessary t.) call in (jucstiou, the reality of that loyal enthusiasm, by which it was said these good people were

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influenced; and I really ■^ish that had been the fact, because ■when incoa^Ls.tfrcies and fooleries result from inebriety or enthusiasm, they mtrit no pity, ^.-.4 escape indignation and resentment.

Much pains, I confess, "were on that day taken to make temporary cntliusi-.-is and with other more exhilarating spirit of loyalty.

To give the appearance of dignity to these curious and very orderly protes*.r.rj_ the author has been very mindful to annex every man's addition to Lis ly.i-.iu- ; upon the presumption, perhaps, that it would derive -weight from the title if mayor, esquire, captain, lieutenant, judge. &c.

But it is not easy to conceive why the public should be less civil to the ckt^- than to the gentry and commonalty. Samuel Seabury and Luke Babcock, c\t. tainly ought not to have been sent into the world floating on a newspaper in Ikit plain way ; the one is the "Reverend Mr. Samuel Seabury, Rector of the uu;!t\i Parishes of East and Westchester, and one of the missionaries for the propagation of the Gospel, (and not politics), in foreign parts," &c., &c., the other Ls "the Rev. Mr. Luke Babcock, who preaches and prays for Mr. Philipse and his tenants at Philipsburgh."