I Arrived At Boston The 23d Instant, Four Hundred And Seventy-Four Miles From Baltimore.

Yours, &c.

_P.S._ I find we are to have a most vigorous theatrical opposition. A sort of dramatic mania has lately seiz'd the inhabitants. The _primitive_ Bostonians would as soon have admitted the plague as a company of players; but the present inhabitants having more liberal sentiments, a company of comedians came to this town about four years ago, and ventured to exhibit dramatic pieces, under the title of _Moral Lectures_. At length a bill passed the General Assembly of Massachusetts to licence theatrical performances; and as it is natural for mankind to run from one extreme to another, they have this year _two_ theatres, both of which are attended with a prodigious expence. Some of the performers are engaged at upwards of 20_l_. english per week; and Mrs. Whitlocke (sister to Mrs. Siddons, whom you may perhaps recollect at the Haymarket) is to have 180_l_. sterling for six nights. This opposition will in all probability end in the ruin of the managers, or rather of the _subscribers, who are bound for the payments_.

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_Boston, October 3d, 1796._

DEAR SIR,

The first leisure day after my arrival here, I went to Bunker's Hill, attended by two persons, who were spectators of the engagement, and were kind enough to point out and explain a number of particulars I wished to be acquainted with, for the purpose of enabling me to form a tolerable idea of this famous action. If general Howe meant only to give the _Yankies_ a specimen of british valour, and his contempt of them and their intrenchment, he succeeded in both. - His enemies on this side the water say, "they gave him a _Rowland_ for his _Oliver_; _that_ he paid _too dear_ for this victory; _that_ a more prudent general would have found a better place to land the troops, and a safer mode of attack; _that_ the _price_ he paid for this little redoubt ought to have convinced him, he could not afford even to _bid_ for Dorchester heights, if once the Americans got possession of those hills; _that_ he should therefore have fortified them _himself_; _that_ - - " But as nothing is easier than to see all these _thats_ when it is _too late_, I shall plague you with no more of them, but conclude with an inscription from a monument on the scene of action.

Yours, &c.

"ERECTED, 1794, By King Solomon's Lodge of Free Masons, [Footnote: General Warren was a brother.] constituted at Charlestown, 1783, In Memory of MAJOR GENERAL JOSEPH WARREN, AND HIS BRAVE ASSOCIATES, Who were slain on this memorable spot, June 17th, 1775.

None but they, who set a just value on the blessings of LIBERTY, are worthy to enjoy her. In vain we toil'd, in vain we fought, We bled in vain, if you, our offspring, Want valour to repel the assaults of her invaders."

CHARLES TOWN settled 1628. - - - - - - burnt 1775. - - - - - - rebuilt 1776.

_P. S._ I was yesterday introduced to Cox, the celebrated bridge-architect:

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