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Dear Sir! I recd yr very kind favor of the 10th Inst wch shd have ansd sooner had I not waited in expectation of hearing again from you as sevl ships have arrived lately at Bristol from Phila, that, as we have been informed brot very interestg news from the Congress. Jno Penn is not yet come to Town & as far as I can learn keeps his public papers to deliver himself. The Butian & Bedford faction have however predetermined not to listen to any terms whatsoeyer of accomodation.

Therefore until the people at large exert their natural rights in this Country, there is little hopes of an end being put to this unnatural & ruinous civil War. It seems pretty certain that the Hanoverians are to go to Gibralter to Garrison that Fortress from where the present Garrison is to be transplated when recruited to America to cut the Throats of our Fellow Subjects & Brethren & as loyal men as any in the whole British Empire. The Georgians in full Provincial Congress have adopted the whole of the Continental Resolves, & manfully spurn'd the bait thrown out to bribe them, by their being left out of the restraining Acts passd the last Sessions.