Your favors of the 8th 11th and 14th reached me last Evening—From the good disposition shewn by the Governor and Council and from your own exertions I flatter myself we shall have a considerable quantity of the salt provision brought forward immediately.

Should the letter of which you inclosed me a Copy have fallen into the hands of the enemy, it will only inform them of what they very well knew before, the distressed state of our finances. I am &c.