or to induce the establishment of watches over the graves of friends recently interred – At length the public indignation on Sunday broke all bounds.  The people of NYork, to do them justice are very zealous attenders upon public worship; I mean the adults; The Chilldren indeed are zealous, but it is in another way, for on Sunday they seem more noisy, active & intent upon their amusements, than on any other day of the week.  The Hospital altho in a somewhat secluded situation is in the vicinity of a Spott, which the boys had unfortunately pitched upon, for their Sundays amusements.  The curiosity of boys is ardent & irresistible, and for the gratification of it, they will forego toss, [ ], marbles, & enterprise anything, And this soon brot them to the windows of the Hospital; where, the glance of a human shambles, inflamed at once their curiosity & their resentment.  In return for some of their strictures, one of the junior Doctors retorted to one of these young Myrmadons, “that they were cutting up his father”.  This excited universal abhorrence in the party, as might naturally be expected from a declaration, true or false, so brutal in itself & so peculiarly wounding to a lad, who had lately buried his father.  They spread the alarm, with circumstances high coloured, upon their inflamed imaginations.  Attention was fixed.  The people collected; – And increasing their numbers, increased their irritation.  Women in piteous accents lamented their mangled husbands, The tender parents renewed their tears over dissected children, and the exasperated husband “poured forth rival bursts of grief & indignation”, at supposed indecencies, to the wife of his bosom.  They fell in fury upon the Hospital.  Such of the Doctors as did not escape, were beaten, & would

Their object now became the imprisoned Doctors, & which had they effected, they would either have done it themselves, or soon left them Subjects of dissection.  The pretence was to tar & feather them; & to accomplish this, they seemed determined to demolish the Gaol.  The drum beat to arms.  A few of the inhabitants paraded, & got possession of the Gaol yard; But under a severe discharge of brick bats & other missile weapons, used upon these occasions.  The picket fence & outer doors were demolished; The windows beat in; & but for the unusual strength of the inner [ ] & gratings of the windows, with the exception of the Do[ ] a general Gaol delivery might soon have taken place.  The Governour in the confusion, got himself confused.  The magistrate perhaps irritated, & smarting under  [ ] & insult, either permitted, or commanded the Militia, to push the populace back; And the peace officer ordered them to disperse at their peril, which had as much effect as whistling to a hurricane; Those who acted under authority, rashly, discharged their pieces upon the indiscreet, but unarmed assembly.  By this promiscuous severity three or four persons were killed outright, some of whom it is said were inactive spectators, and as many more, dangerously wounded.  The wonder is that so little blood was spilled by this ill judged military execution – Thus a tumult excited, by the indecent, & irritable conduct of the Doctors, in mangling the dead, has ended in the carnage of the living.  And I see not but the blood of their fellow Citizens, must be upon their heads; for altho some of them have endeavored to exculpate themselves by oath, their conduct has been generally reprehensible, in some execrable.  The Honble. Mr Jay whilst endeavoring to restore peace was knocked down by a brick batt.  He is confined but not dangerous.