By a letter from Boston we learn, that the Governor of the town of Boston and Bunker's Hill1 has refused payment for the cargo he took out of the ship Charming Peggy, Capt. [Thomas] Dowman, from this port for Lisbon, taken and carried into Boston by one of the parliamentary pirates on this coast: He has however permitted her to depart in ballast (if she can get men) to England or the West-Indies. We also learn that the brig Sea Nymph, Capt. [Joseph] Bradford, from this port for Jamaica, and the brig Catherine, Capt. [John] Mullany, from Cadiz for this port, with several others, are taken and carried into Boston by the pirates.
1. A satirical reference to the fact that Thomas Gage's governorship was no longer over Massachusetts, but restricted by the besieging Continental army.