two Sergeants, one drummer, eleven rank and file, killed; two Sergeants, one drummer and fifer, thirty-five rank and file, wounded.

Thirty-Fifth—Lieutenant Baird, killed; Capt. Drew, Captain Lyon, Lieutenant Massay, Lieutenant Campbell, wounded; eighteen rank and file, killed; two Sergeants, two drummers, forty-one rank and file, wounded.

Thirty-Eighth—Lieutenant Dutton, killed; Capt. Coker, Captain Boyd, Lieutenant Christie, Lieutenant House, Lieutenant Myers, Ensign Sergeant, Ensign Sweney, Quartermaster Mitchell, wounded; two Sergeants, twenty-three rank and file, killed; four Sergeants, one drummer and fifer, sixty-nine rank and file, wounded.

Forty-Third—Major Spendlove, Captain McKenzie, Lieutenant Robinson, Lieutenant Daldrymple, wounded; two Sergeants, twenty rank and file, killed; three Sergeants, two, drummers and fifers, seventy-seven rank and file, wounded.

Forty-Seventh—Major Smelt, Captain Craig, Captain England, Captain Alcock, Lieutenant England, wounded; Lieutenant Hilliard, Lieutenant Gould, wounded, since dead; one Sergeant, fifteen rank and file, killed; three Sergeants, forty-seven rank and file, wounded.

Fifty-Second—Major Williams, wounded, since dead; Captain Addison, Captain Smith, Capt. Davidson, killed; Captain Nelson, Lieut. Higgins, Lieut. Thompson, Lieut. Crawford, Ensign Chetwynd, Ensign Græme, wounded; one Sergeant, twenty rank and file, killed; seven Sergeants, seventy-three rank and file, wounded.

Fifty-Ninth—Lieutenant Haynes, wounded; six rank and file, killed; twenty-five rank and file, wounded.

Sixty-Third—Lieutenant Dalrymple, killed; Captain Folliott, Captain Stopford, wounded; one Sergeant, seven rank and file, killed; two Sergeants, one drummer, twenty-five rank and file, wounded.

Sixty-Fifth—Captain Hudson, killed; Major Butler, Captain Sinclair, Lieutenant Paxton, Lieutenant Hales, Lieutenant Smith, wounded; one Sergeant, one drummer, twenty-five rank and file, wounded.

First Battalion of Marines—Major Pitcairn, wounded, since dead; Captain Ellis, Lieutenant Shea, Lieutenant Finnie, killed; Captain Averne, Captain Chudleigh, Captain Johnston, Lieutenant Ragg, wounded; two Sergeants, fifteen rank and file, killed; two Sergeants, fifty-five rank and file, wounded.

Second Battalion Marines—Captain Campbell, Lieutenant Gardiner, killed; Captain Logan, Lieutenant Dyer, Lieutenant Brisbane, wounded; five rank and file, killed; one Sergeant, twenty-nine rank and file, wounded.

Officers attending on General HOWE.

Sixty-Seventh—Capt. Sherwin, Aid-de-Camp, killed.

Fourteenth—Lieutenant Bruce, killed; Ensign Hesketh, wounded.

Royal Navy—Lieutenant Jorden, wounded.

Engineer—Lieutenant Page, wounded.

Volunteers, late Barre’s—Lieutenant Alexander Campbell, on half-pay, wounded.

Royal Artillery—Mr. Vance, wounded.

Fourth Foot—Mr. Dorans, wounded.

Thirty-Fifth—Mr. Maden, wounded.

Fifty-Second—Mr. Harrison, wounded.

Fifty-Ninth—Mr. Clarke, wounded.

Second Battalion Marines—Mr. Bowman, wounded.

Total—One Lieutenant Colonel, two Majors, seven Captains, nine Lieutenants, fifteen Sergeants, one drummer, one hundred and ninety-one rank and file, killed; three Majors, twenty-seven Captains, thirty-two Lieutenants, eight Ensigns, twenty Sergeants, twelve Drummers, seven hundred and six rank and file, wounded.

N. B. Captain Downes, of the Fifth Regiment, and Lieutenant Higgins, of the Fifty-Second, died of their wounds on the 24th instant.

OBSERVATIONS ON THE GOVERNMENT ACCOUNT OF THE LATE ACTION NEAR CHARLESTOWN.

London, August 1, 1775.

There are two sorts of persons who always persevere uniformly, and without shame, in one unvaried line of conduct, regardless of the contempt and detestation of mankind. The sorts I mean are the thorough virtuous and the thorough scoundrel.

To one of these classes most evidently belong the Ministers who settled the account which they have given us in last Tuesday’s Gazette.

The action near Boston happened on the “17th of June;”. yet General Gage’s letter is dated eight days after, on the “25th of June.”

By this letter it appears that it has cost one thousand and sixty-four of the Troops, killed and wounded, to destroy a redoubt thrown up only the overnight, i. e., on the 16th of June.

The loss of the Provincials, the letter says, “must have been considerable;” yet, eight days after the action, the General, though completely victorious, can tell us only of “one hundred” buried, and “thirty” wounded.

But “they had carried off great numbers during the time of action.” Did they so? That is no great sign of flight, confusion, and defeat.

But “they buried them in holes.” Really! Why, are our soldiers buried in the air.

But “the King’s Troops were under every disadvantage.” So truly it seems; for, in the same letter we are told “that they had a proportion of field artillery, and landed on the peninsula without opposition, and formed as soon as landed, under the protection of some ships-of-war, armed vessels, and boats, by whose fire the rebels were kept within their works.”

But “this action has shewn the superiority of the King’s Troops.” Has it, indeed! How? Why they (with a proportion of field artillery, and with the assistance of ships, armed vessels, and boats, and with the encouragement of certain and speedy re-enforcements, if necessary) attacked and defeated “above three times their own numbers.” What, three times their own numbers? Of whom, pray? Of French or Spanish Regulars? No, of the Americans. Of the Americans! What, of those dastardly, hypocritical cowards, who (Lord Sandwich knows) do not feel bold enough to dare to look a soldier in the face! Of those undisciplined and spiritless Yankees, who were to be driven from one end of the Continent to the other, with a single Regiment! What, of those skulking assassins, who can only fire at a distance, from behind stone-walls and hedges! Good God! Was it necessary, to defeat these fellows, that the Troops should be “spirited” by the example of General Howe, assisted by General Clinton! And can it be, that Lieutenant-Colonels Nesbit, Abercrombie, and Clarke; Majors Butler, Williams, Bruce, Spendlove, Smelt, Mitchell, Pitcairn, and Short, ” should be forced to exert themselves remarkably against such poltrons! Is it possible that this could be an affair in which “the valour of the British officers and soldiers in general was as conspicuous as at any time whatever;” and notwithstanding all this, that the success, in a great measure, should be attributed to the firmness and gallantry of General Pigot?”

Good God! is it come to this at last? Can the Regulars, with all these exertions, only defeat three times their own number of undisciplined cowards? and that, too, at the expense of one thousand and sixty-four (that is, more than one-half) killed and wounded, out of something above two thousand.

Is every redoubt which the Americans can throw up in a short summer night, to be demolished at this expense? How many such victories can we bear?

Alas! when I read in the General’s letter the regular and formidable preparations for attack: “Ten companies of Grenadiers, ten of Light-Infantry, with the Fifth, Thirty-Eighth, Forty-Third, and Fifty-Second Battalions, with a proportion of field artillery, under the command of Major-General Howe and Brigadier-General Pigot;” and these “landed on the peninsula under the protection of ships-of-war, armed vessels, and boats,” and their dreadful fire: when I had read this, I concluded that the next lines would inform me of the immediate and precipitate flight of the Yankees. Judge, then, of my surprise, when I read that (instead of being at all dismayed or struck with the Sandwich panick) “large columns” of these cowards “were seen pouring in to their assistance.”

Well, but then comes an application for the Troops to be re-enforced with some companies of Light-Infantry and Grenadiers, the Forty-Seventh Battalion, and the First