Gentlemen

My Last was of the 23d Instant. I then Advised you of the Situation of Matters here: Since which, there has been no Material Alteration: Verry few men have Arrived; We have fixed the Sloop with Six Carriage & Twelve Swivel Guns: the Schooner with Four Carriage & Eight Swivels, both Vessels are in good Order & Tolerably well manned, Eight Gentlemen having arriv'd from Hartford, who are Seamen, I have sent two 10 Inch Iron Mortars, two 8 Inch Brass Mortars & two 8 Inch Howitzers to Ticonderoga, to be forwarded to Fort George, You may Depend on my Sending the Cannon from this place as Soon as Possible. There are three 13 Inch Iron Mortars here. I beg to know what I Shall do with them. I have Receivd Large Donations of Flour, Pork, Peas &c: from Albany, near 70 Barrels, & I am Informed, there is a Large Quantity On the Road from that Place, & a Quantity Supplied from Connecticut ー The Advice I Receivd from [Isaac] Butterfield, & Communicated in the Postscript of my Last of the 23d Instant prove to be premature. I have good Intelligence from a Batteau immediately from St Johns, which place She Left the 10th Inst. that the Regulars were return'd to Chamblee. I am [&c.]