The Kentucky Gazette

On Friday at New-York at half past ten at night, as Mr. Malcom, the son of Governor Jay, and three of their friends were walking the battery, singing "Hail Columbia" they were attacked by a much larger number of boatmen singing Ca ira and Carmagnole, one of whom demanded whether Mr. Malcom was not the president's secretary. About sixty people then collected all favouring the assailants, and with great difficulty the young men escaped.

The next evening about four hundred young men assembled on the battery, determined to keep their ground against any attack. None, however, having been made they retired.