[Footnote 108: This was the person in whose possession the letters were
found, when taken prisoner on his way from Philadelphia to Boston.]
[Footnote 109: The British officers and the loyal Americans shut up in
Boston seem to have amused their hours of idleness with such pastime as
they could make out of ridicule of the language and action of the
patriots. The productions alluded to in the text were leveled at Mr.
Adams, on account of the intercepted letters. No copy of them seems to
have been preserved.]