`` whereas , '' hayes boomed , glowering at the crowd over his paper , `` i have received information that a great number of outrageous and disorderly persons did tumultuously assemble themselves together in the town of hillsborough , on the 24th and 25th of last month , during the sitting of the superior court of justice of that district to oppose the just measures of government and in open violation of the laws of their country , audaciously attacking his majesty 's associate justice in the execution of his office , and barbarously beating and wounding several persons in and during the sitting of said court , and offering other enormous indignities and insults to his majesty 's government , committing the most violent outrages on the persons and properties of the inhabitants of the said town , drinking damnation to their lawful sovereign king george and success to the pretender- '' hayes paused , gulping air with which to accomplish the next clause .