Mr. Pinkney,

You, or your correspondent, made a great mistake in your paper of the 30th of December, in your account lord Dunmore's cruelty to the poor Highlanders, in saying that they arrived after the battle of the Great Bridge, for they really were brought to Norfolk, pressed into Dunmore's service, promised land and every necessary, were armed against us, and a report industriously propagated, which had reached our camp, that they were a reinforcement of 500 Highland soldiers, and this report was in a great measure the means of saving the remains of the regulars at the bridge. But when his lordship found that this report, and these poor people, could do him no farther service, he turned them adrift to perish, for what he cared. The slaves may judge from this what they might have expected from his lordship's promises, if he pays so little regard to those made to his own countrymen.

Gosport, since our last, is burnt by our people, on which account old [Andrew] Sprowle has lost considerable property. No material news has been received from that quarter this week.