This morning are arrived at Spithead, the C[a]nceaux armed ship, Capt. Mouat [Henry Mowat], from Boston. She left Boston some few hours after Admiral Graves, and the Trident transport; and brings advice, that the Provincials had laid siege to Boston, and were firing briskly on the town when she came away.
1. London Chronicle, February 24 to February 27, 1776.