magistrate they how ever like a true mob did their best to help along public affairs their governor incessantly by him on with and and then his fiery spirit with reproaches and like a knot of sunday managing an unlucky devil of a so that may be said to have been kept either on a worry or a hand gallop throughout the whole of his administration new york chap vii containing divers fearful accounts of border wars and the of the moss of with the rise of the great council of the east and the decline of william the it was asserted by the wise men of ancient times who were intimately acquainted with these matters that at the gate of s palace lay two huge the one filled with blessings the other with misfortunes and it verily seems as if the latter had been completely and left to the unlucky province of among the many internal and external causes of tion the incessant of the upon his were continually adding fuel to the temper of william the numerous accounts of these may still be found among the records of the times for the on the were especially careful to their vigilance and zeal by striving who should send home the most frequent and of complaints as your faithful servant is running with complaints to the parlour of all the petty and of the kitchen all these tale bearings were listened to with great wrath by the passionate and his subjects who were to the full as eager to hear and to believe these frontier as are my fellow citizens to swallow those amusing stories with which our papers are daily filled about british at sea on shore spanish in the promised land of and above all internal plots and we are told by the good in his life of that the terrible defeat of the in was first mentioned in the shop of a at the history of whereupon with the customary of his tribe he ran up into to have the first telling of the story and threw the whole into consternation not being able however to his tale the unlucky was put upon the wheel and whirled about as a reward for his trouble until he was by the arrival of other evidence such was the manner in which busy and of fearful news were treated in whereas in our more enlightened country we support whole herds of for no other purpose than to gratify a public appetite for news and any man who can up a full sounding story of a plot or conspiracy may command his own price for it i have known two or three of these tales of terror to be bought up by government for the sovereign people to amuse themselves withal which goes further to prove what i have before asserted that your enlightened people love to be miserable far be it from me to however that our worthy ancestors indulged in on the contrary they were daily suffering a repetition of cruel wrongs not one of which but was a sufficient reason according to the of national dignity and honour for throwing the whole universe into hostility and confusion oh ye powers into what indignation did every one of these throw the philosophic william letter after letter protest after protest after pro from among a multitude of bitter still on record i select a few of the most and leave my readers to judge if oar ancestors were not in getting into a very passion on the occasion jane some of have taken a ont of the or common and shot it op out of hate or other prejudice causing it to starve for in the july the english did drive the s out of the of into daily with new york i bad latin worse english and hideous low i dutch were exhausted in rain upon the inexorable and the four and twenty letters of the which excepting his champion the sturdy van composed the only standing army he had at his � command were never off duty throughout the whole of his administration nor did the remain a whit behind his patron the gallant in his fiery zeal but like a faithful champion and of the public safety on the arrival of every fresh article of news he was sure to sound his trumpet from the with most disastrous notes throwing the people into violent and disturbing their rest at all times and sea sons which caused him to be held in very great regard the public and him as we do for reasons that have just been mentioned j i am well aware of the perils that me in this part of my history while with curious hands but pious heart among the remains of former days anxious to draw the honey of wisdom i may fare somewhat like that worthy who in with the of a dead lion drew a swarm of bees about his ears thus while the many of the or yankee tribe it is ten chances � to one but i offend the morbid of certain of their unreasonable descendants who may fly out and raise such a about this unlucky head of mine that i i fm reproaches blows beating the people with all disgrace that thej could i imagine may the english of have violently out loose a horse of the honored s that stood bound npon the common or j may the s horses npon the s f ground were driven away by them of and and the j beaten with and sticks again they sold a young belonging to the which had on the s land has col state p p history of shall need the tough hide of an or an to protect me from their should such be the case i should deeply and sincerely not my misfortune in giving offence but the wrong headed of an 