| Description | Impossible now to avoid a civil war, has met with insults and given offence because of his refusal to command the army being raised by their convention to oppose the King's troops, the Southern Colonists have been led to believe by false accounts that they are far superior to the power of Great Britain and by artful schemes have been deluded into rebellion, requests he may not be considered one of the American traitors as he is ready to serve His Majesty and would be glad of an opportunity to convince the Virginians of their error and bring them back to loyalty and duty, asks that an answer to this letter may be enclosed to General Gage and thence forwarded to him by water, if no ships are sent to this colony |