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I wish [Charles] Lee had not been appointed a Generall, I do not like this Contradicting odd Temper  It is Certainly our Interest to protract the War, never to Engage but with manifest advantage & I therefore wish with Ph Johnson that the New England Army at a greater distance from Boston. The Powder from Cape Francois out of the Kings Magazines is a pleasing ArticIe, I wish it was Publick in London. Why did [John] Hall Quit the Congress? Da: Carroll Writes me that the News in the printed Paper I sent You is false, that a Gentn who came to Baltimore last Monday [June 26] from Philadelphia says so. I send you Glosers Phamphlet & Dunlaps Maryland Gazette that you may read Dor Free's Letter . . . What Powder Have you in the Store? without Powder cannot goe on with the Race. . . .