By the Hancock and Adams, arrived from Philadelphia, we learn, that the 13 transports, with the troops shipped at Corke, amounting, Officers included, to 1700 men, arrived at New York the 23d of June, in health and spirits; but not a living creature had landed there, though no opposition had been made to their debarkation: . . . The same accounts advise) that the Nautilus sloop of war had arrived the day after the transports, with an express from General Gage to their commanding Officer, by which it is thought they had received orders to sail to Boston.
1. London Chronicle, August 17 to August 19, 1775.