occurrence took place, deem it a duty we owe to the surviving
sufferers of that bloody transaction, to our fellow citizens, and
ourselves, to make some remarks upon such a singular report.
Although we presume the door is forever closed against any further
investigation of that ever to be remembered transaction, we cannot
help, however contrary it may be to our wishes to irritate the
public feeling, already so much excited, entering into a detailed
investigation of that report.

In the committee's address to the public on the 27th of June last,
preceding the publication of the affidavits of some of the
prisoners, taken on that melancholy affair, they have justly
anticipated what would be the report of the commissioners, after
their investigation; they drew their conclusions from the singular
manner in which the investigation was conducted. The report
commences by stating, that, after carefully perusing the
proceedings of the several courts of inquiry, instituted
immediately after that event, they proceeded immediately to the
examination, upon oath, of ALL the witnesses, both American and
English, who offered themselves for that purpose.--How far this
part of the report is correct, we shall leave the public to judge.

On the arrival of the commissioners at the depot, the committee of
the prison were sent for; after waiting some time at the door of
the room, where the inquiry was held, they were called in
separately and questioned as to their knowledge of the
transactions of the sixth.--The depositions of those who were eye
witnesses of that disgraceful scene were taken; some were
questioned as to the general conduct of Shortland, previous to
that affair; it was represented by them as it would have been by
all, as being universally _cruel, overbearing and oppressive_.
After having finished the examination of the committee, they
requested them to bring forward all the evidence that was likely
to cast any light on the subject of inquiry. They accordingly
returned into the prison, and drew up a list of the names of some
of the eye-witnesses of that day's occurrence. Although they could
have brought hundreds to the examination, and the sum of whose
evidence would have amounted to the same, yet the committee not
wishing to impede the progress of the investigation, by a
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