| Description | Crown Court, result of his conversation with refugees from America, news from Mr London of the distress prevailing at Philadelphia and desire of the people for peace, "A Mr Ingersoul from Pennsylvania by the way of France assures that the tidings will be welcome and adds none here know how many lives have been lost through cold and hunger as well as the sword, one of the Livingstones from New York writes his brother that if Parliament repeal the obnoxious Acts all will be well, Britain and her colonies will again unite and though the Congress should oppose, the people will overrule them therein", considers if the proposal of treating should be rejected by Congress, that the Carolinas with Georgia would be found the weakest links in the whole chain |