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NYJ-N.769.027
23 Feb 1769:13,21 (1364 Supplement)
[Boston, January 23. Journal of Occurrences, continued.]
Jan.26. The court concert of the last evening was it seems,
turned topsy turvy, as Joan the Italian's was a week or two
before--Some officers of the army were for a little dancing
after the music, and being told that Governor Bernard did
not approve of their proposal, they were for sending him
home to eat his bread and cheese, and otherwise treated him
as if he had been on a mimick governor; they then called out
to the band to play the Yanke Doodle tune, or the Wild
Irishman, and not being gratified they grew noisy and
clamorous; the candles were then extinguished, which,
instead of checking, completed the confusion; to the no
small terror of those of the weaker sex, who make part of
the company.---The old honest music master, Mr. Deblois, was
roughly handled by one of those sons of Mars; he was
actually in danger of being throatled, but tinously rescued
by one who soon threw the officer on lower ground than he at
first stood upon; the inoffensive Bartholomew Greene, who
keeps the house for the Commissioners, presuming to hint a
disapprobation of such proceedings, was, by an officer, with
a drawn sword, dragged about the floor, by the hair of his
head, and his honest Abigail, who in a fright, made her
appearance with out an head dress, was very lucky in
escaping her poor husband's fate. Whether our G---r will so
resent this behaviour of the military, as to collect
affidavits, and make it a subject of representation to Lord
H--ls--gh, cannot as yet be determined; be this as it may,
Mr. Deblois has acted in character, having delivered up the
room, which he held from the Commissioners, returned the
subscription money, and wisely determined not to give
another concert, until he should again have it in his power
to preserve order and decency in such an assembly.
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