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NYEP(D.748.001
25 Jan 1748:21 (164)
[In essay on political affairs in the city:]. . . But the
little man attempts unluckily to be witty withall according
to his wonted practice he calls names again, he talks of a
drum and trumpet, by which he would have us understand he
means some certain persons. But what is a drum or a trumpet
without an artist to play upon them; how easily people
discover their country by their dialect, and their
profession by the terms they express themselves in,
sometimes he talks of lugging things in head and shoulders,
at others of warlike instruments, to which he had been
accustomed, and as to his talking only of a drum and being
silent as to a drummer, we know he is an artful designing
man, and therefore suspect he left that vacancy with a
private view to supply it himself, having, as 'its said,
being bred up to that profession and is a great proficient
in it; we remember to have heard him acknowledge that at the
time of the rebellion in North Brittain in King George the
Firsts time he was in a large company, (whether at the tail
of the first, second, or third division, he did not say, but
they were it seems) upon the march, whether to join the
Royalists or the contrary party, we chuse to leave as a
matter for conjecture, that every one may judge as they see
cause. But however must say, he would be thus more properly
employed than in any of those offices werein he is at
present intrusted, and therefore we heartily recommend him
for the purpose before mentioned.
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