| Description | Communicates the contents of a letter of 8 Aug received from New York which mentions the arrival of the June packet with dispatches for Gage; it is concluded they contain the new Acts regarding Boston, General Lee has gone to influence Rhode Island, thence to Boston where his admiration for Gage, and his hatred for Government must lead him to some inconsistencies, quotes from a letter of 3 Aug from another land, stating the bad humour circulating through the Colonies, the fears that the General Congress will be unanimous in a non-importation agreement, and remarking that upon the want of virtue at home the colonists rely for carrying every contested point
For full description see HMC 14th report available in SRO Reading Room |