This afternoon a vessel from the Isle of Wight arrived here, the Captain says that a vessel lay at the back of the above island, which came with dispatches from General [Thomas] Gage,2 which they had put on shore that morning; and that she would lie there two or three days before she came up to Spithead; for which reason was not mentioned, nor was anything to be got from the people relating to the affairs at Boston.
1. London Chronicle, May 30 to June 1, 1775.
2. The dispatches were not from General Gage, but for the American agents in London, and the vessel was the Quero, Captain John Derby, from Salem.
