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VGR(HA.783.030
29 Nov 1783:23 (1/102)
New-York, . . . [15 lines] Nov. 17. Last Friday evening,
Mr. Ephraim Smith, heretofore Inspector of the markets,
assisted by a party of soldiers, determined that the damned
rebels, as that worthy character is pleased to term them,
should not enjoy so small a convenience when the insolence
of his office should be no more, cut down and carried to his
house the bell of the fly-market, with threats of
prostrating the whole of the erections there: But it it
[sic] is with pleasure that we inform the public, that the
commandant, having been made acquainted with the transaction
by a gentleman who happened accidentally to be present, he
not only severely reprimanded Mr. Smith for his conduct, but
Mr. Smith, by his orders, will have the mortification of
replacing the bell in its old station.
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