| Description | Signifying the King's approval of the orders contained in the draft of a letter to General Howe, Lieutenant-Colonel James who delivered a dispatch from General Gage, left Boston on 30 Jul when the rebels were collecting their whole force and he thinks they mean an attack on Boston, which the Generals were preparing to prevent, "disease has I find long prevailed in our camp and desertion the consequence of despair had begun to take place", apologises for opening the private letter from General Burgoyne |