| Description | "Eagle" off Newport in Rhode Island, his arrival in Newport on the 2d instant, the last information received before their departure from the Delaware, was that the General had gone out with 8000 men to forage, post formed by the rebels at Wilmington of 3000 men to cut off supplies, enclosure, Galloway's appointment as Superintendent of all civil affairs in Pennsylvania, his fitness for the appointment, no fear for the safety of the town owing to its fortifications, difficulty about Burgoyne will be best explained by the public despatches, departure of troops from Philadelphia for New York, their intended movements, public libraries at Philadelphia, departure of Mr Duche for England, considers him a "tolerable sample of American confidence and duplicity"
Enclosure, Joseph Galloway to [Ambrose Serle], 15 Dec 1777, "Washington, with his miscreant troop, is on the other side of Schuylkill, on very strong ground", state of the rebel army, an early campaign and vigorous measures would put an end to the rebellion in the middle colonies, is confident the power of Congress would cease if the American army were dispersed |