buildings that were conſumed, while they ſtood looking on, diverted with the ſcene.
The ſoldiers were buſy, the chief time of the fire, in ſecuring for themſelves the property of the inhabitants; breaking open boxes, trunks, and cheſts, driving in the heads of caſks of liquor, and taking out what quantity they could in their hats, bottles, and other veſſels, letting the reſt run out into the ſtreets. Some of the French inhabitants were alſo buſily employed in the ſame manner; one of them in particular, of the name of "Pn," was actually detected with ſeveral articles of value belonging to Engliſh people; and in particular a caſk of Madeira wine, the property of a Mr. John Tileſtone, a reputable tavern-keeper in that town; who afterwards recovered the value of it by a ſuit at law againſt the ſaid Pn.
