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The news from America occasioned a great Stir among us yesterday, by the first report I was afraid the Troops had misbehaved, but upon reading the account from Salem I was Satisfy'd that the Party after having done what they were order'd at Concord, marchd back towards Boston, and possibly may have lost some few men. however the Bostonians are in the right to make the Kings Troops the aggressors and to Claim a victory. Gage's account is not yet arrived, he sent his Letters by a merchant Ship laden with goods, the Bostonians sent their Story by a Ship in Ballast, the Master of which brought no Letters whatever, but appeard in London yesterday morning with the account you will see printed, and a London Evening Post Extraordinary was published last night to spread the Alarm. it is Strange to see the many joyfull faces upon this Event, thinking, I conclude, that Rebellion will be the means of Changing the Ministry, in my poor opinion this Blow, if follow'd up, will soon bring that province into order, as I must suppose the Officer who Commanded the Party did not without necessity attack those armed men who presented themselves to him; It is said that a Pistol accidentally fired occasioned all the mischief; I am impatient for the true and the full account. Lord Percy encamped that night some little way from Boston, so that he was not afraid of his pursuers, as they term themselves  I have seen no Ministers, but I have seen Governour [Thomas] Hutchinson, and he agrees with me in opinion, and says the hurry they were in of sending a ship express from Salem convinces him that the story is misrepresented for purposes of the faction there.