The New Hampshire Gazette And Historical Chronicle

The Ministers expect, That if Captain Preston, and the soldiers who committed the late murders at Boston, are condemned, That the Lieutenant-Governor (Hutchinson) will respite them during the King's pleasure, (which may occasion another Porteus's affair) and it is reported, that the ministerial plan now is to censure, some say to break Col. Dalrymple, for leaving his post without orders; that is, he should not have quitted the Town, but maintained full possession of it at all events. What the Colonel did was probably the most humane, as well as the most prudent. But if this report is true. such censure or punishment must be considered as an example to other officers and soldiers, to massacre the people, without ceasing, till all resistance and dispute is finally ended.----A notable engine this, of the VINDICTIVE spirit of CARLTON House!