Issue of The London Chronicle newspaper from Thursday, October 12 to Saturday, October 14, 1775, eight pages, 8.5 x 11.25, containing a section entitled “Advices from America” that features a news brief from Watertown, Massachusetts, on August 21st, which relays news of the dire aftermath of the Battle of Bunker Hill, in full: “For some days past Gen. Gage has been permitting the people to come out of Boston, stripped of every thing, and what they call a pocket serjeant to search every person's pocket, that no one carries with him or her more than five pounds. The inhabitants are extremely distressed, and the troops almost as much. Almost all their wounded at Bunker's-hill and elsewhere are dead, and all the provincials who were prisoners with them are dead. They say our balls were poisoned, but the had provision, and the scurvy which prevails among them, is a more probable and charitable way of accounting for the death of the wounded. Certainly there never was any poisoned balls used. Some of their officers are still very angry, talk high and big, but the more sensible men among them are dispirited, and say that it is in vain to attempt anything, for if they should attempt our lines, success is uncertain; and should they succeed, the enemy will rally again on the next hills, and increase in number and in rage, and will harass them to death, and those that may happen to survive the conflict at the lines; that they cannot do as in Europe, fight one or two battles in a season, and then lie still and quiet, and refresh on good provisions, forage, &c. and get recruited from the neighbourhood; here they cannot be succoured in the course of months.” In fine condition.
