My Lord,

Though my Time is exceedingly taken up in making out Pardons for Rebels, who are coming in for them by Hundreds; I cannot omit the Opportunity of Lord Shuldham's sailing without congratulating Your Lordship on the repeated Successes of our short Campaign. Every Particular of Importance Your Lordship wiil read in the public Dispatches; and therefore I will only say, what is the general Sentiment here, that the Power of the Rebellion is nearly broken, and beyond any apparent Probability of Resource or Recovery. The most intelligent of the Rebels themselves are of this Opinion, as we learn both by intercepted Letters and by other Channels of Communication.

We hope, early in the Spring, to be in Possession of Philadelphia. The Ships, &c in that Harbor, will be an Acquisition to us, if we can save them; but their Destruction will be an irreparable Loss to the Rebels. Their other armed Ships, under Hopkins, are blocked up at Rhode Island: And we have two or three Ships of War.at the Mouth of the Delaware. There is Reason to believe, that the Business, at least the hostile Business, will be settled in the next Campaign.

The Remains of the Congress are gone to Baltimore in Maryland. They have sent off their Records, &c into the interior Country.

The Difference in the Appearance of the King's Affairs, and especially the Revolution in the Professions of many Persons in this Country, are both very great. The People of Connecticut, among others, have lowered their Tone; and though their late Advantage in surprizing a Post of Hessians will undoubtedly flush them with a Sort of Triumph (for of all vain Men I believe the People of this Country are the vainest) ; yet their Satisfaction, as I understand, is likely to be very shortlived, and we may soon expect to hear of their being rewarded with a proper Chastisement.

I have the Honor to be, with the greatest Respect and Truth, My Lord [&c.]

P.S. [Charles] Lee, since his Captivity, behaves with the Meanness of Spirit expected of him.