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formation of this society is doubtful, and it is quite 
certain that during the short rule of the Batavian Re- 
public in 1802-3, it must have been suppressed, but on 
the re-capture we find it in a flourishing state. In July 
1805 Mr. M. Campbell advertised in the Royal Gazette 
that he had built a commodious house on the front of 
Pin. Vlissengen, and having obtained the Governor's 
permission, intended to continue the Union Coffee House 
under the same rules with which it began. He would 
have two good billiard tables, a room for subscribers* 
where they could meet on business, and a number of 
bed-rooms, while a Committee would be chosen from the 
then subscribers to regulate the admission of new mem- 
bers. 
This building seems to have been situated at the south- 
east corner of America and Main Streets, and the present 
edifice on the same site will probably contain portions of 
the old structure. Besides its club rooms it contained a 
hall, which was used for concerts, amateur theatricals* 
public meetings and dinners, while the Amicable Society 
also met there, one of its monthly meetings being adver- 
tised to take place on October 2nd 1805, at eleven o'clock 
in the morning. The first subscription concert took 
place on the 10th of April 1805, at half-past six in the 
evening and was followed by a ball. Gentlemen non- 
subscribers were charged twelve dollars, and ladies one 
joe, each to be introduced by a subscriber and no coloured 
person admitted. The Eendragt Society held its half- 
yearly meeting here on the 7th of June 1806, when the 
11 Governor and twenty-five subscribers sat down to an 
elegant dinner." 
Mr. Campbell offered the Coffee House for sale in 
