Yesterday George Ross, Master of a Vessel in the Merchants Service, was brought before the Lord Mayor, in the Council Chamber, Guildhall, being charged with a Breach of the Peace against Mr. Alderman [William] Lee, upon the Royal Exchange, and threatening "to do for him in another Place."¹ His Conduct appearing to have been exceedingly outrageous, he was bound over in a Recognizance of One Thousand Pounds, and two Sureties in Five Hundred Pounds each, to appear next Sessions at the Old Bailey. It appeared on the Evidence that his Assault on Mr. Lee was entirely unprovoked on the Part of the Alderman, who had never seen him before; and there appeared sufficient Reason to suspect that a very dark Design was intended against Mr. Lee. It was proved that the Treatment of the Prisorier[s] brought into the River in the Yankee Privateer was literally as stated: in a Letter addressed to the Lord Mayor, signed "Humanitas," and published in the Ledger on Monday the 5th of this Month. That Capt. [James] Hodges's Humanity and Kindness to the Prisoners was uniform and laudable. Capt. Winn, who was present the whole Time that Mr. Alderman Lee was with the American Prisoners, and heard all their Conversation, declared, before the Lord Mayor, that the Conversation stated to have passed by a Writer, under the Signature of "Plain Truth," in the Gazeteer of Wednesday last, was totally false.