| Description | "I am this moments returned from the City but without seeing Captain Derby tho I pursued every means and had every assistance to find him out", gives account of the Concord skirmish as received from Messrs Lane and Fraser who are in connection with Captain Derby, letters for Lord Dartmouth from General Gage are on board the "Sukey", encloses paper reprinted from Salem newspaper and hopes his Lordship will speedily send it to the King
Enclosure, 29 May 1775, the London Evening Post Extraordinary (number 8296) consisting of an article headed "From the Essex Gazette, printed at Salem, in New England, Salem 25 Apr" being an account of the action at Concord, "last Wednesday 19 Apr, the troops of his Britannick Majesty commenced hostilities upon the people of this province, attended with circumstances of cruelty not less brutal than what our venerable ancestors received from the vilest savages of the wilderness" etc, a list of the provincials killed, wounded and missing is added |