and Men,
and under Cover of the Night said Morgan landed at a public
Wharff, having first made proper Dispositions either for an
Attack or Retreat, then went to a Tavern, and took a
chearful Glass, after which they went to work, and took
every Person they met with, and knocked all down that
resisted; and dragged them on board the Tender; but the Town
soon took the Alarm, and being headed by Paul Loyal, Esq; a
Magistrate, they endeavoured to convince Capt. Morgan of his
Error, and being deaf to all they said he ordered the People
in the Tender to fire on the Inhabitants, but they refused
to obey their Commanders Orders, and he was soon obliged to
fly, leaving some of the Hornets behind, who were sent to
Gaol, but were afterwards released.

Mr. John Ashton, in his recently published work on "Social Life in
England at the end of the Eighteenth Century," informs us that one
evening in the year 1790, 2,100 men were pressed in London alone,
besides many more at the seaport towns.

* * * * *

In the summer of 1762 there was a severe drought in Massachusetts, and
the Governor issued a proclamation recommending public prayers for rain;
but it will be noticed that he says if rain should come before the day
set apart for prayers, then, instead of humiliation, it would be the
duty of the people to make it a day of thanksgiving. The proclamation
referred to was published in the "Boston Post-Boy" of July 13, 1762.

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By HIS EXCELLENCY

FRANCIS BERNARD, Esq;

Captain-General and Governor in Chief, in and over His
Majesty's Province of _Massachusetts-Bay_ in _New-England_,
and Vice-Admiral of the same.

A PROCLAMATION

_For a Day of Public Prayer._

IT having pleased Almighty God to visit this Province with
another severe Drought, which, if it should continue much
longer, cannot fail of bringing great Distress upon the
Inhabitants thereof--We are again called upon to supplicate
the Interposition of Divine Providence to relieve this
Country from the imminent Danger with which it is threatned,
by dispensing timely and plentiful Rain.

I HAVE therefore thought fit to appoint, and I do, by and
with the Advice of His Majesty's Council, appoint Wednesday
the Twenty-eighth Day