[Extract]

There is an account received that the Transports are sailed from Cork, and next week, the Generals [William] Howe, [John] Burgoyne and [Henry] Clinton, follow them from hence in a Man-of-War; some of these troops are destined for New York, and two Companies, with a Sloop, are to be sent to Georgia . . .

They say your Seaports are to be turned into garrison Towns, and the people of the Country left at liberty to form any establishment they think proper. . . . Your Governour I suppose will take up his residence amongst the musquetoes at Breacock, and you will be a Congress, or Committee-man, instead of a military man.