‘dering, and burning the Gafpee fchooner. The 'King trufts, that all perfons in the colony will pay adue refptft to his royal commiftion, and that the bu-fincfs of it will be carried on without moleflation ; at the fame time the nature of this offence, and the great number of perfons who appear to have been concerned in it, make every precaution neceflary. His Majelty haj.therefore, for^.'the,further fupport in the execution of this duty, thought fit to direft me to fignify bis pi afure to Lieutenant General Gage, thfi^t he do hold himfelf in readinefs to fend troops to Rhode-lfLod* whenever he fhall be called upon by the Commiffioners for that purpofe, in order toaid and affitl the civil magiilrate in , the fuppreffion of any riot or difturbances, and in the pMervaticfn of the puHlick peace. 1 haVe only, to add upontl|gt head, that his Majelly depends on the care and vigilance of the. civil magiftrates of the colony, to tftkelhe proper mea/ures tor the arrefting and com-mitlng to cuilody, in order to their being brought to juftice, fuch perfons, as fhall, upon proper infor-mAfinn hptnrp thpm^ . nr hpfnrp hii Maieftv’s