| Description | Doubts not he has received dispatches acquainting of the unhappy situation of General Gage and his army shut up in Boston, and surrounded by 20000 rebels who are devastating with fire and sword the lives and property of all who oppose their measures, Sir William's property and his own have been seized by them and devoted to their own use, it is believed that the town cannot be held much longer without more troops, as the army is much reduced by sickness, his personal discomfort from want of suitable food in the long and fatiguing passage of ten weeks without vegetables |