| Description | New York, the impression of despondency made upon the enemy is too powerful for the machinations of Congress to remove, some of the rebels give out that they will never consent to any terms of composition, his opinion that Great Britain can only regain her dominion and keep it when retained by the sword, influence of the newspapers of the Colonies, encloses newspapers, an Indian secretly making his way to prepare his people for the next year and to convey intelligence of our affairs to General Carleton, information about Joseph Read of Philadelphia from an officer of Government who represents him as an able man but full of chicane, intrigue, and duplicity, supply of provisions for the Army and Navy by the incursions into the Jerseys etc, it does not seem a sanguine opinion that the heart of the rebellion is really broken, considers it requires no prophetic spirit to pronounce that the desire for independence will break out again in the course of years |