[Extract]

There is nothing very important here except the news received three days ago concerning the evacuation of Boston. The evacuation took place on 17 March. The letters from the English general and the officers were dated 24 March on board the ships that sailed forHalifax. They left without destroying Boston and it is said that they did not remove the cannon from this city. The embarkation was not disturbed by the Provincials who undoubtedly gave them this opportunity to escape. . The Government passes on this news with an appearance of mystery and calculation, trying hard to make it look like a feint ordered by the mm1sters. But it won't do! It is too obvious that the English were chased from Boston because the could not hold any longer for lack of supplies. 2 This evacuation, the entry of general [Charles] Lee into New York with 22 thousand men, 3 all the suspects being chased from this city; these Hes-. sians who are still at home from what you wrote me, although here they are said to have left a long time ago; all this confirms what I wrote you in my last

Cartoon satirizing official British accounts of the evacuation cof Boston.

dispatch: the Americans are doing quite well in all respects, except for the lack of engineers and powder. Ah! Count! Powder and engineers, I beg you! I do not think I ever had a wisl? dearer to my heart.