Extract of a Letter to a Gentleman in New-York, Dated Hartford, Connecticut, June 5, 1775

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Mr˙ Hide, the Boston post, reports that a vessel bound to London, on board of which Mr˙ Robert Temple, a high-flying tory, was passenger, sprang a leak soon after her departure, and put into Plymouth, (New-England,) to refit. That the people took Temple prisoner, sent him to the camp at Cambridge, secured his papers, and opened a great number of letters, many of which were from officers of the Army at Boston. That those letters in general are full of complaints and expressions of uneasiness. Some of the officers desire and entreat to sell out, others say they are fighting in a bad cause, and apprehensive of a mutiny; others mention a difference between the General and the Admiral, and that the Army in general are disheartened and uneasy; other letters are full of invectives against the poor Yankees, as they call us. We hear the Provincial Congress will keep Temple as a hostage; but I hope they will let the vessel go with the above letters.