Extract of a Letter to a Gentleman in Philadelphia

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We are at present in our camp, in tolerable security. Ploughed-Hill may bid defiance to all their malice; and what is more amazing, that can scarce be credited by a Philadelphian, though nevertheless true, they have suffered our men at Roxbury to throw up an intrenchment below the George Tavern, and within musket shot of their last intrenchment, and have scarce honoured us with a cannon. We were last night under some apprehensions of an attack. General Ward sent a letter to his Excellency, informing him that be had seen, or his people had seen, a number of men parading on Bunker' s Hill; and our Army was kept during the night underarms, in order to give them a genteel reception. They have since been seen with their knapsacks on their backs, and, from good accounts from Boston, we are convinced they have sent a party of men either (which is most probable) to re-enforce the garrison at Quebeck, or to New-York. Three men-of-war are gone out of the harbour, for what purpose we cannot tell.