part of the country they pleased. Good God! what could be their plan. If they intend defence, they must be unacquainted with the geography of the country, or never adverted to the matter. The design of seizing that post was gloriously conceived; but to what purpose did our forces light there, if they are now to fly away from there. Certainly to no good purpose, but to very bad and destructive purposes; for by this step General Carleton is alarmed. Whereas if this step had not been taken, his proceedings might have been slow and with some leisure; but now, if he is worthy of command, he will exert himself to the utmost, and proceed with despatch. If we maintain the post, the measure of taking it was glorious. If we abandon it, the step will turn out to have been a destructive one.

I am informed that Connecticut have ordered five hundred men for that place. What number they have proposed that this Province should send, I have not heard. I hope that a moment’s time will not be lost before a proper number get on their way thither, if it is posssible that they can be furnished with so much ammunition as will make them of any service when they shall arrive there. I shan’t presume to say any more, what more I conceive to be fittest for this service; perhaps I went too far on that head in my last. Instead of seeing men march eastward from the County of Berkshire, (as they have within these two days.) I hope to see some marching westward for Ticonderoga. I think it would be best to importune Connecticut to spare some more gunpowder to that place, we paying them for a part or all of it, as they have had a late arrival of at least two tons since they sent five hundred pounds for that place. All that I can say on that head is, that they and we must do as well as we can. As to supplies of victuals, there can be no difficulty of procuring a sufficiency on Hudson’s River and in Berkshire County, if proper persons, with the needful, are appointed for that purpose.

I think, Sir, that Connecticut have good pretensions to appoint the commanding or chief officer there, and hope, Sir, that we shall not make any difficulty about it, but fully cede that prerogative to them.

I purpose to set out for Congress the day after to-morrow; but as the case of Ticonderoga calls for the greatest despatch, I could not endure the loss of a day before I communicated more of my mind to you. You will use these hints, Sir, as you please.

I am, Sir, with great truth and best regards, your Honour’s friend and most humble servant,

JOSEPH HAWLEY.

Honourable Joseph Warren, Esq., at Watertown.

Whitehall, June 10, 1775.

Lieutenant Nunn, of the Navy, arrived this morning at Lord Dartmouth’s, and brought letters from General Gage, Lord Percy, and Lieutenant-Colonel Smith, containing the following particulars of what passed on the nineteenth of April last between a detachment of the King’s Troops in the Province of Massachusetts-Bay, and several parties of rebel Provincials, viz:

General Gage having received intelligence of a quantity of military stores being collected at Concord, for the avowed purpose of supplying a body of troops to act in opposition to His Majesty’s Government, detached, on the eighteenth of April at night, the Grenadiers of his Army, and the Light-Infantry, under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Smith, of the Tenth Regiment, and Major Pitcairn, of the Marines, with orders to destroy the said stores; and the next morning eight Companies of the Fourth, the same number of the Twenty-Third and Forty-Ninth, and some Marines, marched under the command of Lord Percy, to support the other detachment.

Lieutenant-Colonel Smith finding, after he had advanced some miles on his march, that the country had been alarmed by the firing of guns and ringing of bells, despatched six Companies of Light-Infantry, in order to secure two bridges on different roads beyond Concord, who, upon their arrival at Lexington, found body of the country people under arms, on a green close to the road; and upon the King’s Troops marching up to them, in order to inquire the reason of their being so assembled, they went off in great confusion, and several guns were fired upon the King’s Troops from behind a stone wall, and also from the meeting-house and other houses, by which one man was wounded, and Major Pitcairn’s horse shot in two places. In consequence of this attack by the rebels, the troops returned the fire and killed several of them. After which the detachment marched on to Concord without any thing further happening, where they effected the purpose for which they were sent, having knocked off the trunnions of three pieces of iron ordnance, burnt some new gun carriages and a great number of carriage-wheels, and thrown into the river a considerable quantity of flour, gunpowder, musket-balls, and other articles. Whilst this service was performing, great numbers of the rebels assembled in many parts, and a considerable body of them attacked the Light-Infantry, posted at one of the bridges, on which an action ensued, and some few were killed and wounded.

On the return of the Troops from Concord, they were very much annoyed, and had several men killed and wounded by the rebels firing from behind walls, ditches, trees, and other ambushes; but the brigade, under the command of Lord Percy, having joined them at Lexington with two pieces of cannon, the rebels were for a while dispersed; but as soon as the troops resumed their march, they began to fire upon them from behind stone walls and houses, and kept up in that manner a scattering fire during the whole of their march of fifteen miles, by which means several were killed and wounded; and such was the cruelty and barbarity of the rebels, that they scalped and cut off the ears of some of the wounded men who fell into their hands.

It is not known what numbers of the rebels were killed and wounded, but it is supposed that their loss was considerable.

General Gage says that too much praise cannot be given to Lord Percy for his remarkable activity during the whole day; and that Lieutenant-Colonel Smith and Major Pitcairn did every thing that men could do, as did all the officers in general, and that the men behaved with their usual intrepidity.

Return of the Commission, Non-commission Officers, and Rank and File, killed, wounded, prisoners, and missing, on the 19th of April, 1775:

Fourth, or the King’s own Regiment: Lieut. Knight, killed; Lieutenant Gould, wounded and prisoner; three sergeants and one drummer wounded; five rank and file killed, twenty-one wounded, and eight missing.

Fifth Regiment: Lieutenant Thomas Baker, Lieutenant William Cox, Lieutenant Thomas Hawkshaw, wounded; five rank and file killed, fifteen wounded, and one missing.

Tenth Regiment: Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Smith, Captain Lawrence Parsons, and Lieutenant Wald Kelly, killed; Ensign Jeremiah Lester, wounded; one rank and file killed, thirteen wounded, and one missing.

Twenty-Third Regiment: Lieut. Colonel Berry Bernard, wounded; four rank and file killed, twenty-six wounded, and six missing.

Thirty-Eighth Regiment: Lieutenant William Sutherland, wounded; one sergeant wounded; four rank and file killed, and eleven wounded.

Forty-Third Regiment: Lieutenant Hull, wounded and prisoner; four rank and file killed, five wounded, and two missing.

Forty-Seventh Regiment: Lieutenant Donald McCloud and Ensign Henry Baldwin, wounded; one sergeant wounded five rank and file killed, and twenty-one wounded.

Fifty-Second Regiment: one sergeant missing, three rank and file killed, and two wounded.

Fifty-Ninth Regiment: three rank and file killed, and three wounded.

Marines: Captain Souter, and Second Lieutenant McDonald, wounded; Second Lieutenant Isaac Potter, missing; one sergeant killed, two wounded, and one missing; one drummer killed, twenty-five rank and file killed, thirty-six wounded, and five missing.

Total: One Lieutenant-Colonel killed; two Lieutenant-Colonels wounded; two Captains wounded; nine Lieutenants wounded; one Lieutenant missing; two Ensigns wounded; one Sergeant killed, four wounded, two missing; one Drummer killed, one wounded; sixty-two rank and file killed, one hundred and fifty-seven wounded, and twenty-four missing.

N. B. Lieutenant Isaac Potter reported to be wounded and taken prisoner.

THOMAS GAGE.