Nor did your Petitioners make any Interest or application
whatever for the obtaining such Licence.

That when the said Signer Torree' had by his own Inte
rest obtained & Licence your Petitioners considered that
exhibitions of Fire works had been made in Public Gardens
during upwards of twenty years without the Legality
of such exhibitions being ever questioned. Your Petitioners
therefore had not the last conception that they should be
censured on this head by your Worships

That influenced by such reasons your Petitioners entered into
a Contract with Signor Torree' for the exhibition of Fire Works
during the whole Term of their Lease of the said Gardens and
assigned him a part of them for that purpose and Signor Torree'
being to expend a considerable Sum in the erection of Buildings
Etc. they entered into a Bond of one thousand Pounds for the
observation of the said Contract.

That at the last General Licencing upon Dr. Arnold's
Application for a Licence he not expecting an Objection
would made thereunto came unprepar'd with authority from
either Signor Torree' or Mr. Berry to answer Objections or to
enter into any promise that might include them such engage
ment would have subjected him to the Penalty of his Bond
from Signor Torree' and have tendered him answerable for the
consequences of it to his Partner And Dr. Arnold has been
since informed that he could not be released from such Bond
without a Judgment in Law and that if he had promised to
discontinue the said Fire, works upon his own Authority
he must have been guilty of a breach of his Promise or have
incurred the penalty of his Bond.

That your Petitioners have been unhappy in falling under
the censure of the Magistrates the [..] Petition of whose [..]
had impressed such a degree of Gratitude upon them that
if they could have prevailed upon Signor Torree' to give up
their engagement they would have instantly put & Stop to the