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X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.

or three cheers; eaw them throw-
ing oyster shells and snowballs
at the sentry at the Custom
‘Honse door; he was on the steps;
some were hallooing out, “Let us
burn the sentry box, let us heave
it overboard”; ‘but they did nei-

John Ruddock, Fog. As I
went home met « number of
Dboys with elubs; they went eo
for several months before; they
choosed to do so, because they
had been so often knocked down
by the soldiers; some said the
soldiers wera going to fight ‘with
the people.

Newton Prince. When the
hells rung was at my own house;
asked where the fire was; some-
body said it was something bet-
ter than fire; met some with
clube, some with buckets and
bags, and some running before
me with sticks in their hands;
went to the Town House, an
saw the soldiers come out with
their guns and bayonets fixed;
saw Capt. Preston with them;
there were a number of people
by the west door of the Town
House; they said “let's go and
attack the main guard”; some
said, “for God’s sake ‘do not
meddle with them;” they said,
“by God, we will go"; othera
again said, “do not go”; after
awhile they huzesed and went
down King street; saw people
with sticks striking on their guns
at the right wing; apprehended
danger, and that the guns might
go off accidentally; had not got
to the eentre of the party, before
the guns went off; as they went
off I ran, and did not stop till
T got to the upper end of the
Town House; the crowd said,
“fire, damn you, fire, fire, you
lobaters, fire, you dare not fire.”

Gregory Townsend, Just after
the bell rong nine, I saw num-
bera of people running from the
South End, some had buckets,
the principal number had clubs
in their hands; numbers ‘were
ooming with buckets, and the reat.
said, “Damn your bloods, do not
bring bueketa, bring clubs.”

November 30.

Richard Hirons, Am a physi-
cians on the evening of March
5th, a little after eight, hearing
a noise and disturbance in the
street, went ont to know what it
was; was told there was e differ-
ence between the town’s people
and soldiers; saw several sol-
diers pass and repass; some with
bayoneta and some with eluba;
saw a number of people running
to and fro in the street; shut my
door and went in; heard 2 per-
zon running through Roylston’s
alley with great violence; he ran
towards the barrack gate and
eried out, “Town-born, turn out;
town-born, turn out”; heard this
repeated twenty or thirty times;
it was the constant ery; remem-
ber to have heard the voice of a
person whom I took to ba En-
sign Maul, say, “Who ia thia fel-
low, lay hold of him”; this ery
of “town-born, tum out,” was
repeated for seven or eight min-
utea, when I heard the voices of
a great many more; the coliee-
tion of such a number, with a
noise of the clubs, induced me to
lock my door, put out my light
in the front part of my ‘houge,
and to go up stairs into the
chamber fronting the barracks;
when there, observed four or
five officers of the twenty-ninth
regiment standing on their own
staps, and some twenty or thirty
of the town's people snrround-
ing the steps; sbout that time,

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