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Many thanks to you for your letter, bad as the News was it conveyed; The taking of the Ordnance Brig is a most unfortunate & mortifying accident My accounts say she was seen by the Cerberus Man of War about the 16th of November, & that the Man of war, After having put some men onboard her parted with her in a hard Gale; ² If the Town of Boston & the Cantonments of the army shoud be burnt by the very Carcasses & Bombs which were sent for in order to burn Roxburgh & Cambridge, The Saints & Predestination will have it to say That the Lord hath delivered them into their hands, ー I see the[ir] proclamation for a fast Ends with God save the People.