Soon after receipt of this you may expect very important News from this Country. Our affairs are in a most flattering train.—Cornwallis strongly entrenched, and now besieged at York Town Virginia by a formidable Army of French & American troops under Command of General Washington—The French Fleet in the Bay & River Co-operating with the Army, and so Arranged, that the Enemy can’t take flight or receive Succour—

The English Fleet returned to N York after a very ruffe handling, & from every account, in a Situation unfit to attempt any thing on this Coast but that of proper measures for their Security—

There is a report Currant here, of a very bloody Action in So. Carolina, where Genl. Green maintained a Victory with the Loss of 300 Killed & wounded, & the loss of the English Killed Wounded & prisoners above a thousand. Official accounts are hourly expected, if this shoud prove true, England cannot boast greatly of her possessions in the Southern States— Remember me kindly to Doctor Franklin & believe me sincerely Yr friend &ca.