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that Colonels Raymond & Tyson were shot to death in Jamaica, because they enterd into a design of deposing Govr Doyley, though they never attempted to execute it; That all the officers in Virginia who joind Col. Beacon against Govr Sir Wm Berkley were disgraced & rendered incapable of ever holding a commission Civil or Military & that Govr Fletcher brough [brought] Col Lesly & James Milbourn Esq to a trial for High Treason, & that they were condemned & executed accordingly, because they attempted to keep the Government of New York or would not yield it up to him at his first arrival, until his Majestys King Wm pleasure should be known. His Majestys Ministers have not communicated with Johnston. Foveaux or Paterson, nor have they acknowledged their authority.
Adjutant Minchin has lately returnd from England, whether he made his escape or how otherwise no person here can tell. Mr Wm Wilson of Fenchurch Street sent an order to the Master of the Atalanta to take him on board for New South Wales; & I also am informd that Grimes is going out in Wilson's employment to Timor, & when I add to this the circumstance of Wilsons withdrawing from Campbell at this time & sending another person and Jenkins here to do his business I am led to suspicions of a nature not the best, but you, Madam, have an opportunity of knowing about these things, & this information may lead you to enquiries which will remove suspicions or confirm them. Mr Marsden has sent a clergyman one Cowpar here with directions in a letter to him which I saw to put himself under the direction of whatever person had the command here i.e. of whatever Rebel Chief ruled, for who but Rebels can rule here until his Majestys Government is restord? Cowpar is therefore acting