[Extract]

Should General Washington be so lucky as to drive the Enemy out of the Jersies, will they not make a bold push to attack us by water, and that much Earlier in the Spring than we are aware of? Is not Billings Port by nature Capable of being made very Strong, so as to support the Cheveux de Frise that may be-sunk in the Channel, that, with our other Force may be a means of keeping them back, with the help of the Fire ships and Boats? Suppose they should surmount all these Difficulties arid get a breast of this Town, have we not a second Chance, and I think a very good one, namely, a Number of Fire Ships and Boats to be plac'd above and below this Town, wi.th small Batteries on Every Wharf, with the men well Cover'd? When the Ships get before your Town, they must stay; they cannot Slip and run of[f]; the Channel is so narrow that one of there largest Ships Cant Come to sail without keeping in the middle of the Channel, which is not to be done unless they are favour'd in a particular manner with Wind and Tide.