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Sir

I have just received two Letters from General St. Clair dated Tyonderoga of the 25th & 26th Instant. He advises me that the Enemy's Fleet and Army are arrived at Crown point; that they have sent strong Detachments one to cut off Fort George and the other either to surprize Skenesborough or throw themselves on the Communication between that and Tyonderoga. Our Garrison at Tyonderoga is greatly inadequate to the Defence of the expensive Works on both Sides of the Lake and I have unhappily no Troops to reinforce them. . . .