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LeDespenser Packet arrived here from Falmouth with advices from London to the 3d August ー Accounts in brief are the Administration were sending more Troops and ships of War to America determd to persevere in the execution of their plan ー General Gage in his Acct of the Bunker Hill affair of the 17th June transmitted to Lord Dartmouth owns about 1056 of the Kings Troops Killed & Wounded &his number of Officers rather exceeds our early advices ー We have heard nothing since the first of August from our Delegates [attending the Continental Congress].