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VGR(HA.782.016
27 Apr 1782:22 (1/19)
A person lately from New-York relates, "That Sir Henry
Clinton, since the surrender of the army under Lord
Cornwallis, is extremely reserved in his behaviour, that he
frequently rises from the table before his guests have half
done, and is on horseback a considerable part of his time,
with hardly any attendant. His Excellency, he says, has two
houses in the city of New-York, besides one at Kingsbridge,
one at Flushing, one at Newtown, one at Jamaica (on Long
Island) another at the Narrows, one on Staten Island, and
one at Hell Gate. In each of these houses, he keeps a
regular and civil establishment. The Yankees (Americans)
declare, that they are not without hopes to take him, some
favourable night or other, as they took Gen. Prescot
formerly, without his breeches. The song at Head-Quarters
is, "All for love: or, America well lost, " being an
allusion to the title of one of Dryden's plays, "All for
love: or, the world well lost."
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