Extract of a Letter, Dated Boston, August 20, 1774

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Letters by Captain Scott have this moment arrived. He brings intelligence that the people in England are rubbing up their eyes, and begin to awake. Governour Tryon is said not a little to contribute to this; he told the Lords of Council that it would not do to treat the Yorkers as he did the Regulators; they were very different kind of men. He said all the force he had could not have saved the tea, and therefore he sent it back. He was asked what he thought of the present measures adopted towards the Americans? He answered, they would undoubtedly produce a Congress. And what would be the result of that? He replied, he could not take upon him to say; perhaps the loss of all North America.