Dear Sir
Your much Esteemd favr I Recd by post, I find you did not enjoy the pleasing sensations that the Capturing the Fox occasiond so long as I did, for till last evg we in general thought she was not recaptured, I fully Join in Sentiment with you it had been prudent &Right in them to have come in with their Prize your reasons are the most Cogent for it, however its too late to mend, And as you justly observe if we dont pay two dear for our Experience it will be well, We have been kept strangely in the dark respecting this matter as McNeil has not wrote a line to any person in this town since he arrivd at the Eastward, You inquire after News from France, I was favrd with a letter from Dr Franklin, he writes, for political Reasons France has declind entering into War, tho it cant be long avoided, England has not been able to procure a single Russian, and but two Germans, that the utmost they will be able to send over this year wont Reach 6000 that he believes the Howes will put forth the utmost exertions as if the[y] fail of Success this Campaign the ministry Can not be supported in their measures another year. I am[&c.]
