Extract of a Letter from a Gentleman at New-York to his Friend in Scotland

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Mr˙ Washington, with 25,000 men, still keeps General Howe within the limits of Bunker' s Hill and the town of Boston. Their privateers have had amazing success in taking a vast number of provision and store-ships, some with cannon and ordnance stores. In short, they are very active. I wish I could say as much for the British fleet, although they are very numerous. Captain Wallace, at Rhode-Island, has, indeed, kept them in good order there; but, by all accounts, [Admiral Graves] has behaved very ill. He gives no proper orders to his Captains detached, and studies nothing, himself, but getting money. In the beginning, some people ventured to Boston by water, with fresh provisions; but there is such oppression, that none of them will go again. Even the poor fishermen cannot get out, till they give a dollar to his Secretary.