The Mercury frigat, capt. Graham [Alexander Graeme] (former [John] Macartney, who is gone to England) having general [Henry] Clinton and lord [Hugh] Percy on board, and two transports, with between 3 and 400 troops, chiefly light infantry of the 4th and 44th regiments, and a number of officers belonging to the 16th and 40th regiments, besides some engineers, are arrived in Hampton road, from Boston; since which they have been joined by the Kingfisher, and four or five tenders, who now lie off Hampton, and it is supposed are bound up Potowmack, or for North Carolina, where some disturbances have broke out among the people who lately styled themselves regulators.
Capt. Montague, we hear, is promoted to the command of the Mercury and capt Graham succeeds him in the Kingfisher.
Two brigs went up Norfolk river, accompanied by some tenders, a few days before the arrival of the Mercury.
It is said that troops with lord Dunmore, to the amount of 500, are intrenched at Portsmouth, and that a considerable number of our people are intrenching some little distance below them. The Roebuck is gone up to Norfolk, where the Liverpool and Otter, with the ships Dunmore and William, a number of tenders, and other craft, still remain.
A considerable quantity of gunpowder (5000 wt. it is said) with osnabrugs and other linen, is safely landed in North Carolina.
The ship Rockingham is now in Hampton road, with upwards of 60 passengers, bound for Glasgow.
