| Description | The expedition mentioned in a previous letter abandoned as General Gage frustrated the scheme, Schuyler is penetrating Canada to seize stores there, taking 7 or 8000 men with him, about 1400 of whom were sent from Washington's army, believes many Canadians and Indians are ready to join the rebels, powder arrived at Rhode Island from the French West Indies, the designs of number 4 are clear and he evidently aims at independence, the letters from John Adams and others printed in the newspapers were intercepted by Gage, hopes something will happen to prevent the independence so much desired by some but dreaded by others, tomorrow the ports are all closed,encloses newspaper and plan of Boston |