The Virginia Gazette

Captain Jenkins, who left Quebec the 21st of July, informs, that the Canadians seemed well pleased with the proceedings of the colonies; and he understood they had received, and highly approved, a letter sent them by the Continental Congress. That ship bread was 5 dollars per hundred, white bread 3l. wheat 6s. per bushel. That six or seven transports were loaded with provisions for Boston, and one of 500 tuns had sailed. The inhabitants uneasy, apprehending a scarcity. The garrison in a poor state of defence, not more than 25 regulars in it. Governor Carleton had taken most of the cannon, to mount on the floating batteries at St. John's. That it was said he had not with him above 50 or 60 men, and had committed 30 or 40 Canadians to jail for refusing to take up arms against the colonies. That there was only one vessel of war, the Gaspee brig. That he saw a letter from a sergeant of the regulars at St. John's, to his wife in Quebec, informing her, that he was so busy in building floating batteries, to retake the forts from the Yankees, that he had not had his clothes off in a fortnight.