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Dear Sir  An Insurance Office is lately opened at Philadelphia, I have sent to know the Price of Premiums to the West Indies ー Col: [Joseph] Trumbull, Col: [Thomas] Mifflin & Lady are going down this Day ー It is said Congress have taken off all Restraints on the Prices of Goods that by their consequent Rise, Adventurers here & abroad may be induced to bring us Supplies upon which I am told great Numbers at Philadelphia are fitting out Vessels ー Salt sells there @ 2 Dollars P Bushell ー Sugar is between five & Six Pounds P hundred. ー it is expected that by Fall we shall have most Articles in much greater Plenty ー my Landlady tells me she has just given a Dollar for a ps Dutch Lace whh she used to buy for 2/6 ー by last Accounts from Philadelphia the Roebuck of 44 Guns & Liverpool of 28 were warmly attacked by 3 armed Vessells & all the Gallies in Delaware & tws expected the former would be made Prizes...