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stom, a grim piece of Protestant sport, which, since the days of Lord George Gordon and the No Popery mob, had very generally fallen into disuse. On the 5th of the eleventh month of this present year all England was traversed by processions and lighted up with bonfires, in commemoration of the detection of the gunpowder plot of Guh, as far as we can learn, a solitary exception. The stranger who chances to be travelling on the road between Newburyport and Haverhill, on the night of the 5th of November, may well fancy that an invasion is threatened from the sea, or that an insurrection is going on inland; for from all the high hills overlooking the river talsome fragments of the songs sung on such occasions, probably the same which our British ancestors trolled forth around their bonfires two centuries ago:— The fifth of November, As you well remember, Was gunpowder treason and plot; And where is the reason That gunpowder treason Should ever be forgot? When James the First the sceptr