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PL.777.038
24 Dec 1777:41 (112)
The following lines were wrote with charcoal, on the walls
of the new gaol in this city, by an Officer, * prisoner, and
one of the first in it: They are yet to be seen in the
farthest room in the west wing, where both Major-General
Prescot and he were then most rigidly and cruelly confined.
--A Loyalist in the city, by some means, procured a copy of
them; but, as it was dangerous for any one to have them
found in his possession, during that reign of tyranny, they
were seen only by a few. Now the happy time has arrived,
when such free publications may be found even in the
Philadelphia papers.
Confinement hail! in honor's justest cause,
True to our King, our country, and our laws;
Opposing anarchy, sedition, strife,
And every other bane of social life.
. . . [20 lines]
Philadelphia prison, January 20, 1776.
*Captain Smyth, of the Queen's Rangers.
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