Edmund Bark-all, - for his authentic intelligence, from the lying Gazette, of the butchery at Long Island in cool blood, and of the old woman who fired New Yorks, (more than a hundred thousand men could do!) and for the moderate, humane, pious, and Christian-like counsel to the Synod, and in detecting the A-----p of blasphemy, and for his motion to white-wash the synagogues of Satan; to be appointeed Commander in Chief of the White Boys, and Provost Marshal to the American army on this side the Atlantic.
N.B. A phial of this gentleman's water has been presented to Dr. Mayersbach; but, to the great grief of his friends, it was returned, with only a shrug of the shoulder, and the word Moorfields wrote on the label.
Source: findmypast - Caledonian Mercury 25 November 1776