Gents Mag 1746 p.235

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	Gentleman's Magazine 1746 p.235 sometimes flattering them with expectations from Scotland, at other times from France, and when all this wou'd not do, he fir'd the guns round the batteries for joy of a pretended victory, got I know not where. I do assure you their joy, ill grounded as it was, gave all real well-wishers to their country sufficient uneasiness, especially as no certain intelligence could be obtained. In the mean time frequent skirmishes happen'd betwixt the citizens and rebels, in all which the townsmen had the better, and made several prisoners, whom they sent to distant goals, whilst the governor, to prevent a general defection, seiz'd the fathers of the offenders, as if punishing them would atone for the fault of their sons. He likewise attempted several methods to remove the general odium which his party lay under, sometimes by fair words, and at other times by menaces, and locking up the gates, all which prov'd ineffectual; so that the whole extent of his government seem'd to be in a state of hostility and confusion. Affairs were in this situation 'till about the middle of December, when the governor being appriz'd of the retreat of his partisans, seiz'd on the market, and fixed his own price on the commodities, ransacking the country people, under pretence of searching for letters, and impressing beds for the use of his garrison from the inhabitants. (to be continued.)
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