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We wish matters ware onct settled between G.B. & these Collenys but from the last accts we se[e] little prospect. No doubt if the difference Subsists much longer but what the Collonies will suffer severely. but at the same time we think England will feel it much more, as here the real Necessarys of life for the poor will come much lower than in England & if the Collonys should hold out & keep from fighting we think in the end it will make them more Industerous than the[y] have been & of Course less extravagant . . . [John] Smith in a brig² is arrived here with Servants from yr ー port the[y] answer wellー