Gazette Of The United States And Daily Evening Advertiser

The two following articles are taken from a Boston paper, which has obtained the name of the lying Chronicle. Our readers will perceive, that there is some disagreement in the two accounts—tho' the Governor offers no reward for apprehending the Rioters. yet it is to be presumed that the anonymous account of the transaction is not true.

BOSTON, June 22.

"ILLEGAL" and Hasty "ADJUDICATION."

Saturday evening a large concourse of people assembled on the Long Wharf, in consequence of a hand-bill issued the preceding afternoon, purporting that a New Providence or Bermudian privateer was then lying at said wharf. The enraged multitude, having ascertained the fact, desired the captain and crew to leave the sloop, which was soon complied with; they then proceeded to examine, and found several carriage guns, shot, small arms, cutlasses, and other warlike implements, which they threw overboard. This discovery exasperated them to such a degree, that they dismantled and dismasted her—they then towed the hull from the wharf and set fire to it. The tide carried it as far as Charlestown, where it "burned to the water's edge."

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

BY THE GOVERNOR.

A PROCLAMATION.

Whereas it has been represented to me, that a number of persons, unknown, did, the last night, riotously and tumultuously assemble in the town of Boston, and, with force and violence, did burn a vessel named the Betsey, of St. Croix, lying at the Long Wharf, in the said Boston, and destroyed the cargo then on board:

I have therefore thought fit, by and with the advice and consent of the council, to issue this proclamation; hereby requiring all magistrates, sheriffs and constables, and I do also recommend to every good citizen of this commonwealth, that they use their utmost endeavors for discovering, apprehending, and bringing to justice, any, or all persons concerned in this unlawful and dangerous proceeding—so that he or they may be dealt with according to law.

Given at the council-chamber in Boston, this twenty-first day of June, in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-five, and in the nineteenth year of the independence of the United States of America.

SAMUEL ADAMS.

Attest,

JOHN AVERY, jun. Sec'ry.

By this Day's Mails.