By His Excellency Horatio Sharpe, Esq, governor and commander in chief in and over the province of Maryland. A brief [electronic resource] : It having been represented to me, by His Majesty's governor of the Massachusetts-Bay in New-England, that on the 20th of March last, a fire broke out in th town of Boston, in such manner as to elude all means for suppressing the same, until it had (according to the best information that could be obtained) destroyed 174 dwelling-houses, and as many warehouses, shops and other buildings.