far as the juries were concerned in the admini-
stration of it, by finding verdicts upon almost any
evidence against a soldier, while, if the soldier
was the complaining party, no proof was deem-
ed to be sufficient to produce one for him. These
are facts of such notoriety, that it is presumed the
sons of liberty themselves will hardly think fit
to deny them; but will rather endeavour to ex-
cuse and vindicate their conduct upon the prin-
ciples of a jesuitical morality and the lawfulness
of using any means to obtain so glorious an end
as the recovery of public liberty. But if they
should deny them, I must refer the reader to the
testimony of all the Englishmen, of every rank
and profession of life, that have been at Boston
within the last two years, for the proof of them.
This ill disposition of the inhabitants of Boston
towards the King's troops had gone on increasing
from the time of their arrival there till the late
Unhappy Disturbance by which some of them
have lost their lives, and had proceeded to such
a length that, as two gentlemen of the 29th re-
giment, Lieutenant Dickson and Ensign St.
Clair, declare in their deposition (which is print-
ed in the Appendix, No. 110.) it was become
unsafe for an officer or soldier to walk the streets,
and that they had been desired to take care of
themselves by an inhabitant of the town, who
had heard several of the people say that they
would kill all the officers in town, and that after
that they should be able to manage the soldiers
by giving them land and settling them in the