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NECH-B.776.023
22 Aug 1776:41 (9/418)
Now in the press, and speedily will be published and sold by
Powars and Willis, and John Gill, in Queen-street, The Fall
of British Tyranny, or American Liberty Triumphant, the
First Campaign.
A Tragi-comedy, of five acts, containing twenty-six scenes,
among which are the following, viz.
A pleasing scene between Roger and Dick, two shepherds
near Lexington.
Clarissa, &c. A very moving scene on the death of Doctor
Warren, &c. in a chamber near Boston, the morning after the
battle at Bunker's Hill.
A humorous scene between the boatswain and a sailor on
board a man of war, near Norfolk in Virginia.
Two very laughable scenes between the boatswain, two
sailors, and the cook, exhibiting specimens of seafaring
oratory, and peculiar eloquence of those sons of Neptune,
touching Tories, Convicts and black Regulars; and between
Lord Kidnapper and the Boatswain.
A very black scene between Lord Kidnapper and Major
Cudgjo.
A religious scene between Lord Kidnapper, Chaplain, and
the Captain. . . [17 lines, more scenes]
With a dedication, preface, address of the Goddess of
Liberty to the Congress, dramatis personae, prologue,
epilogue, and a song in praise of King Tammany, the American
Saint. . . [4 lines]
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