. Devonshire characters and strange events. dangerously wounded and fifteen slightly. Before the two sent from Plymouth arrived, Shortlandhad asked for a reinforcement, and a colonel at the headof more troops arrived. The colonel came to thegate attended by the guilty Shortland, says Andrews,who could not look a prisoner in the face, but walkedtowards the prison bars with his face fixed on theground. The report of Sir J. Rowley and Captain Schombergwas to the effect that the rioters endeavoured to over-power the guard, to force the prison, and had actuallyseized the arms of some of the soldier
. Devonshire characters and strange events. dangerously wounded and fifteen slightly. Before the two sent from Plymouth arrived, Shortlandhad asked for a reinforcement, and a colonel at the headof more troops arrived. The colonel came to thegate attended by the guilty Shortland, says Andrews,who could not look a prisoner in the face, but walkedtowards the prison bars with his face fixed on theground. The report of Sir J. Rowley and Captain Schombergwas to the effect that the rioters endeavoured to over-power the guard, to force the prison, and had actuallyseized the arms of some of the soldiers and made abreach in the walls of the depot, when the guard founditself obliged to have recourse to firearms, and five ofthe rioters were killed and thirty-four wounded . .that the Americans unanimously declared that theircomplaint of delay was not against the British Govern-ment, but against their own, which ought to have sentmeans for their early conveyance home ; and in repliesto distinct questions to that effect, they declared they. THE PRINCETOWN MASSACRE 651 had no ground of complaint whatever. GovernorShortland, according to Andrews, in alarm lest theprisoners should attempt to retaliate on his family,hastily removed his wife and children from the Gover-nors house. But, as Andrews asserts, such a dastardlythought as to revenge themselves on a woman andchildren never entered the heads of any of them—andthis we may well believe. The prisoners now formed a committee to draw upan account of the circumstances, and to send it to theAmerican agent, Beasley, for transmission to theGovernment of the United States. It is characterized,naturally, with bitterness and resentment, such as werefelt in the heat of the moment. It will be as well to give this textually. We the undersigned, being each severally sworn onthe holy Evangelists of Almighty God, for the investiga-tions of the circumstances attending the late Massacre,and having heard the depositions of a great number ofwitnes
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