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Dear Sir

I have your favr of the 4th instant. We are yet intirely in the dark as to the destination of the Enemy, the Fleet has neither been seen or heard of since they left the Capes of Delaware on this day week. If they had intended back to the Hook, we must have heard of their arrival there long before this time, as the Winds have been constantly fair. As the sickly season has commenced to the Southward, and there is no capital Object there, I cannot conceive that they are gone that way. I can therefore only conclude that they intend to go round Long Island into the Sound, or still farther East­ward. If they do either of these, it must be upon a plan of co operating with Genl Burgoyne, who, as matters are going on, will find little difficulty of penetrating to Albany, for by the last Accounts, our Army had fallen down to Saratoga. . . .