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TO EDMUND PENDLETON.

Dear Sir,—Yesterday's post was the first that has
failed to bring me a line from you since our correspondence
commenced. I hope it has not been owing
to any cause which concerns your health.

We had it yesterday from under Genl Washingtons
hand that another embarkation is actually
departed from N. York, among [torn] to abt. 2500
troops. There is little & [torn] that they will steer
the same course with the preceding detachment.
Congress are under great anxiety for the States ags.
which this accommodating force is to be directed,
and the more so as the principal means of their
defence is so little in their power. It is not so much
the want of men as the want of subsistence arms &
clothing, which results from the want of money that
gives the greatest alarm. A disposition appears to
do every thing practicable for their relief and defence.

Mr. Harrison writes from Cadiz that the combined
fleets in that port, including 18 ships from the W.
Indies under Guichen amounted to 68 Ships of the
line. He offers no conjecture as to the manner in
which they will be employed.