Orders were on Tuesday night sent to Portsmouth for the Greyhound sloop of war, now in dock, and fitting for America, to be got ready with all possible despatch. It is reported some persons are to go in this ship with powers to propose terms of reconciliation, the event of which may be known time enough to prevent the sending more forces in the spring.
The calling in foreign troops seeming to be considered an indispensable measure by the friends of Administration, it was judiciously remarked by General [Henry Seymour] Conway, that if once we set America the example, she too would apply for foreign aid; and if she offered her commerce to France, he did not doubt but that country, finding England had applied to Russia for aid, would protect America, and thus a general war be brought on.
At twelve o'clock this day arrived a mail from New-York, brought by the Harriot packet, Captain Lee, to Falmouth; she has brought a great many letters. This is the last mail that will arrive from thence till farther orders.
The Charming Sally, Wilson, a transport from London to Boston, is lost on the Goodwin Sands, and all the people perished.
