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NP.776.040
16-23 Sep 1776:12 (3/156)
London, April 18 . A correspondent informs us, that
tomorrow, the 19th, being Saint Yankee's day (As tultelar
Saint of North-America) and also anniversary of the famous
battle of Lexington,
. . . [Description of a satirical procession]
The many respectable gentlemen who from time to time have
been tarred and feathered for their loyalty and attachment
to the constitution, to appear in that dress, two and two.
All those prudent knowing ones, who by refinement on
duplicity, have in some measure persuaded the colonists (say
rebels) to think them their friends, but are now lately come
over to give private information, and to avail themselves of
something beneficial from the general confusion, to appear
in their party-coloured dominos with black crapes over their
faces, two and two. The procession will be preceded by the
Doctor of Music from Rhode-Island, with his newly raised
band of Highland bagpipers; and the whole to move upon the
quick step, to the tune of Yankee Doodle. After the sermon
is over the procession will return in the same order to the
place from whence they came; where an elegant entertainment
will be ready at four o'clock, and the ceremony, it is
expected, will conclude with great festivity in the evening.
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