The New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

BOSTON, April 28. A Gentleman from New-York, informs us, that in consequence of a current report which had been circulated in that city, for some days, that the Faculty had frequent recourse to the burying-grounds for subjects for dissection--and a discovery made at the Hospital on Sunday afternoon last week, of some circumstances of the fact, a concourse of people, of the lower class, to the number of three or four hundred, assembled, broke into the hospital, rifled the rooms, and destroyed the books, skeletons, &c. therein; and threatened with destruction the Surgeons, &c: concerned in the practice Three of whom, to appease the mob, were by mittimuses from magistrates, taken and committed to gaol.--Thus stood the affair on Sunday night.

On Monday morning the mob again collected, and entered and damaged several houses of the Surgeons-and made an attempt to break the prison and to seize on the prisoners : But a number of persons having got possession of the gaol, defended it, and prevented the mob from accomplishing their object. The people had by this time collected in great numbers, and his Excellency the Governor harangued the mob, and endeavoured to allay the riot but without any effect--they crowding and otherwise indecently incommoding him Other gentlemen made the same attempt, but with like ill-success. The drums then, by order of the Governor, summoned the militia to assemble--and small parties having embodied, in several parts of the city, were marched to the defence of the gaol-some of whom were disarmed, and had their guns broken to the stones, the rest were so much injured by pieces--and brick-bats, &c. which were thrown by the mob, and which wounded a considerable number of them. and the other citizens, that many of them, though armed, were obliged to retreat-and others to fire up on those who attacked them--by which three persons were killed, viz. a carman, a servant of Mr. Livingston's, and a young man.-- Darkness only put an end to the riot.

On Monday night, orders were sent into the country, for the militia to march in, to the assistance of the magistrates ; and the next day, a considerable number obeyed the orders--But there being no appearance of any further mischief being done--the military were dismissed, and the fracas subsided.