FEDERAL PROCESSION, 2 AUGUST 1788

Pilots.
Marine Society.
President [James Farquhar] with a gold anchor at his left breast,
suspended by a blue ribbon, and two Vice-Presidents [Augustine Law-
rence and Paschal N. Smith].
Treasurer [William Heyer], Secretary [William Newton] and Attorney.
Standard-bearer with a white silk flag, representing a ship cast on
shore; a dead body floating near her; a woman and children in great
distress, lamenting the sad catastrophe, are consoled by HOPE, leaning
with one hand on a large anchor, and pointing with the other to CHAR-
ITY, who holds a chart inscribed, New-York Marine Society; in the upper
part, handsomely ornamented, is written, Marine Society, State of New-
York; in the lower, in gold letters, the Society's motto,
"To Charity add Knowledge."
Former officers.
Standing committee.
Society and strangers, masters of vessels, four a-breast.
Printers, Book-Binders and Stationers.
Preceded by Messrs. Hugh Gaine and Samuel Loudon, on horseback.
The Standard, supported by Messrs. [George] Carroll and Bryce.
A stage, drawn by four horses. Upon the stage the Federal Printing-
Press, complete; cases, and other typographical implements, with press-
men and compositors at work-During the procession, many hundred
copies of a Song, and an Ode, adapted to the occasion, were struck
off, and distributed by Mr. A. M'Lean among the multitude.19
A small flag on the top of the press, on which was inscribed the word
"Publius"20 in gold letters.
Mr. John Loudon,2' representing a herald
mounted on the back of the Federal Printing-Press, dressed in a flowing
robe, and a cap, on which were written the words, "The Liberty of the
Press;" with a brazen trumpet in the right hand, proclaiming " The ep-
ocha of Liberty and Justice," the words "Epocha of Liberty and Justice" pend-
ing from the mouth of the trumpet. In the left hand, a parchment
scroll representing the New Constitution.
The Master Printers, Booksellers and Bookbinders, with their Jour-
neymen and Apprentices, four a-breast, following the stage.
Description of the Standard.
Fame blowing her trumpet, and supporting the medallion of His
Excellency Doctor Franklin, the venerable Printer; Liberty attending,
holding her cap over his head-the electric fluid darting from below.
On the upper corners, the Union flag, and Stationers' Arms; and below,

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