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Sir

I have the honor of inclosing to Your Excellency agreeable to my promise to Mr Gerard Copies of my Letters respecting Monsr La Fayette, which I hope will be agreeable, & can only say, I have felt much on the Occasion, for the delicate honor of the Marquiss, lest some report injurious to him should be spread, in either Country; ー No Country need be ashamed of him, & I am sure he will one Day justify to The World, that my early prejudices in his favor were well founded. ー

Our Intelligence by the last express, came down to the last of February, the Vessel sailed the 2d of March, & at that Time, nothing material had happened Lord Cornwallis was at Brunswic, & Amboy, and Genl Washington at Elisabeth Town, Morris Town, &c & was increasing his Army daily encounters happened, & generally to the Advantage of The Americans ー the Congress were well united and fully determined to support their independance, but were under many Difficulties, on Acct of Cannon & Wars like Stores, but particularly on Acct of a Number oLVessels of considerable Force to secure some of their harbors where Their Fleet might Assemble; meantime, Lord Howe has spread his Cruisers from one End to the other of the Continent, so that should only Two Shipps of the Line, strike on him, in any one part, he must be broken essantially, & the Operations of His succeeding Campaign frustrated. . . .