| Description | Philadelphia, an entire stoppage to trade is expected on the first of the next month and preparations are being made for a civil war as the people are determined to support the cause of liberty, petitions and remonstrances from London meet with the same fate as those from the colonies and are treated as of no consequence, General Gage is hemmed in by the provincials at Boston, calling the Americans rebels has made them desperate and they now mean to act as such, arrival of Major Skene Governor of Ticonderoga, Crown Point and the Lakes, but as these places have been taken possession of by New England men, he has no Government to go to, and is under a guard of American militia, it is expected he will be obliged to show his papers, sincerely wishes reconciliation as the contest is horrible |