Letter from Governour Gage to the Earl of Dartmouth

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MY LORD: Your Lordship' s letter of the 3d of August, No˙ 8, was received on the 27th ultimo, and its duplicate by packet next day. The change that has happened in the affairs of this country, your Lordship will have been made acquainted with, since the date of the above despatch, from various parts, and know with what violence the other Colonies have espoused the cause of the Massachusetts Bay, though some more moderate than others. The Congress is still sitting, and from some previous resolves they have published, particularly one transmitted your Lordship, approving the resolves of Suffolk County, and another recommending non-importation, we do not expect much good from their deliberations.

I mentioned to your Lordship my intention to postpone meeting the Assembly, and you will see the Proclamation to that end in the enclosed papers, together with the resolves of Worcester, and some publications against supplying the King' s troops with necessaries; so that I was premature in telling your Lordship that the Boston artificers would work for us. This refusal of all assistance has thrown us into difficulties, but I hope to get through them,

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I do not find that the spirit abates any where, for it is kept up with great industry.

They are shortly to have a Provincial Congress in this Colony, composed chiefly of the Representatives lately chosen to meet at Concord, where it is supposed measures will be taken for the government of the Province.