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EG.769.021
7-14 Mar 1769:1341 (1/33)
Journal of the Times. Boston, Jan 26. The Court Concert of
Wednesday evening was, it seems, turned topsy-turvy, as Jane
the Italian's was a week or two before. Some officers of
the army were for a little dancing after the music, and
being told that Governor B-----d did not approve of their
proposal, they were for sending him to eat his Bread and
Cheese, and otherwise treated him as if he had been only a
Mimick Governor; they then called out to the band to play
the Yanke Doodle tune, or the Wild Irishman, and not being
gratified they grew noisy and clamorous; the candles were
then extinguished, which instead of checking, completed the
confusion; to the no small terror of those of the weaker
sex, who made part of the company. The old honest music
master, Mr. Deblois, was roughly handled by one of those
sons of Mars; he was actually in danger of being throatled,
but timeously rescued by one who soon threw the officer on
lower ground that he at first stood upon; the inoffensive
Bartholomew Greene, who keeps the house for the
Commissioners, presuming to hint a disapprobation of such
proceedings, was by an officer, with a drawn sword, dragged
about the floor by the hair of his head, and his honest
Abigail, who in a fright, made her appearance without a
head-dress, was very lucky in escaping her poor husband's
fate. Whether our G----r will so resent this behaviour of
the military, as to collect affidavits, and make it a
subject of representation to Lord H--sb---gh, cannot as yet
be determined; be this as it may, Mr. Deblois has acted in
character, having delivered up the room, which he held from
the Commissioners, returned the subscription money, and
wisely determined not to give another concert, until he
should again have it in his power to preserve order and
decency in such an assembly.
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