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capture of the valuable Island of Ceylon, from the Dutch, by Admiral Hughes; and of Negapatam, another of their important possessions, on the coast of Coromandel, with two ships, richly freighted with spices and other oriental productions. Ireland is likely to be indulged in every thing. In addition to a free trade and a free legislation, they have obtained the assent of the Lord Lieutenant to an Act of Parliament for emancipating the Catholics from their shackles on their religious rights, and on their tenures of real property. Your philanthropy will be gratified by my adding, as other proofs of the progress of light and freedom, the abolition of the inquisitorial jurisdiction in Sicily-the only part of the Neapolitan dominions where it was in force,and the inefficiency of the Pope's visit to Vienna in checking the liberal innovations of the Emperor in his ecclesiastical polity."

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General Washington is still here. I have nothing to add to my last on the subject of Lippencot and Asgill.

TO EDMUND RANDOLPH.

Philadelphia, July 30, 1782.

DEAR SIR,

I was not mistaken in my 7. 21. 5. 1. 10. 26. 27. 21. 7. 11. 18. 15. 13. 12. 25. 12. 8. 5. 12. 25. 1. 18. 10. 11. 14. 24. 10. 26. 11. 17. 7. the 10. 8. 4. 12. 27. 13. 20. 25. 1. 16. 17. 16. 27. 6. and 7. 21. 4. 12. 15. 19. 10. 5. 1. 12. 12. 26. relative to 14. 12. 13. 22. 2. 13. 21. 8. 24. 1. 12. 12. 4. 23. 25. 23. last the 11. 22. 5. 1. 12. 12. 3. 13. 11. 10. 26. 11. 17. 21. 22. 11. 25. 24. 24. 2. and 17. 12. 15. 7. 11. 2. 12. 16. by 27. 19. 13. 6. 1. at 4. 16. 3. 11. 17. 27. 1. 5. afterwards 27. 5. 13. 5. 2. 11. 9. 17. 10. 3. 16. 22. 25. 5. 25. 17: the 16. 1. 24. 24. 3. 13. 25. 3. 24. 27. 13. 21. 4. 1. 1.-12. so requiring. Not a word 21. 8. 4. 11. 25. 7. 11. against 18. 15. 17. underscored in the third line. The arguments on the other point were drawn from a source which need not be pointed out to you. An 26. 11. 22. 7.

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I have found means hitherto of parrying the 26. 27. 5. 20. 27. 9. 22. 26. the 12. 22. 5. 24. 16. 13. 13. 25. 7. 15. 16. 16. 4. My 1. 22. 24. 4. 2. 26. 14. 6. 24. 16. 6. 8. 7. 24. 15. 3. 23. 17. 20. 17. 3. 11. 24. 17. pressed the necessity of an 26. 10. 5. 7. 3. 1. 22. 26. 26. 15. 3. 26. 4. for 16. 8. 5. 1. 3. 23. 16. 26. 26. 17. 6. 12. 15. 7. 11. 20. 12. 26. 12. 6. 13. 21. on that subject, be 18. 3. 17. 24. 11. him and the 26. 26. 4. 24. 10. 27. 19. 10. os. 18. 12. 26. 11. 6. 27. 19. 10. 25. but 16. 12. 13. 4. 9. 23. to bring the 17. 1. 14. 2. 2. 1. 27. 14. 24. 3. 13. 25. 17. 22. 12. 12. 14. 3. 24. 16. 17. At present 27. 19. 13. 6. 1. 17. 12. 17. 5. 16. to decline the object, as having an 7. 19. 24. 12. 2. 12. 11. 17. 6. 27. 23.

All the movements of 2. 23. 15. 12. 12. 6. are pointed, directly or circuitously, either to 11. 22. 3. 1. 16. 13. 26. 18. 10. 25. 12. 18. 24. 1. 11. This cypher, I find, is extremely tedious, and liable to errors.

General Carleton, in his letter to General Washington, above quoted, says, with respect to Lippencot only, that the court had passed their judgment, and that as soon as the length of the proceedings would admit, a copy should be sent to him. It is inferred that this murderer will not be given up, and consequently a vicarious atonement must be made by the guiltless Asgill.*

The key to the cypher used in the above and two preceding letters could not be found.-EDITOR.

TO EDMUND RANDOLPH.

DEAR SIR,

Philadelphia, August 9, 1782.

Extract of a letter from Carleton and Digby to General Washington, August the second: "We are acquainted, sir, by authority, that negotiations for a general peace have already commenced at Paris, and that Mr. Grenville is invested with full powers to treat with all parties at war, and is now at Paris in execution of his commission. And we are likewise, sir, further made acquainted, that His Majesty, in order to remove all obstacles to that peace which he so ardently wishes to restore, has commanded his ministers to direct Mr. Grenville that the independency of the Thirteen Provinces should be proposed by him, instead of making it a condition of a general treaty; however, not without the highest confidence that the loyalists shall be restored to their possessions, or a full compensation made them for whatever confiscations may have taken place."

This is followed by information that transports are preparing to convey all American prisoners in England to the United States, and a proposition for a general exchange, in which seamen are to be placed against seamen as far as they will go, and the balance in favor of Great Britain to be redeemed by land prisoners-the former to be free, the latter not to serve in war against the Thirteen Provinces for one year. An embarcation is taking place at New York for Charleston, either to reinforce that garrison or replace it.

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The preceding letter was published in New York, at the same time it was sent to General Washington. I commit this intelligence to your discretion, making no other remark than that it clearly calls for our watchfulness, at the same time that it flatters our expectations.

DEAR SIR,

TO EDMUND RANDOLPH.

Philadelphia, August 13, 1782.

I transmitted to you, a few days ago, by express, the contents of a letter from General Carleton and Admiral Digby to General Washington, announcing the purpose of the British Court to acknowledge the independence of the Thirteen Provinces. Our expected advices on this head from Europe are not yet arrived. A Mr. Blake, an opulent citizen of South Carolina, who came from Great Britain under a passport from Mr. Laurens to New York, and thence hither, assures us that the Administration are serious with respect to peace and the independence of this country; that the point, however, was carried in the Cabinet by a majority of two voices only; that their finances are so disordered that a continuance of the war is in a manner impracticable; that the militia at New York have been thanked for their past services, and told explicitly that they would not be wanted in future; that the evacuation of the United States will certainly take place this fall, and that a large number of transports are coming from England to remove the British garrisons, probably to the West

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