[Plymouth] Decr 7. Their Army is now broken to peices — Their General not to be found -so that General How has been Obliged to send to the Governor of Connecticut about an exchange of prisoners — of whom he has great N[umbe]rs — They have likewise lost a very great part of their Cannon Tents & baggage — And yet the managers of the Game in the province affect to talk in the high Style — Still push the draughting of every fourth man to releive the Army who are every day running home — Sick Louzy ragged & full of all manner of nastiness — Nay General Wn [Washington] (who moves the Puppets (or puppies) of this place) has the effrontery to give out that a french fleet & army will be over early in the Spring — But he has lyed so of ten & so barefacedly That his very tools & creatures begin to distrust & contemn him — A Fleet from France! — There will be one from the Moon as soon — Strange Stupidity to expect assistance from that quarter — For can it be tho't, that any European power who has colonies in America would lend a helping hand to form an independant State here so large an one, as lhe British Colonies would make; if all united. — 2